Research that has looked at the medical records of 2, 000 breast cancer patients taking tamoxifen suggests half of women fail to finish a five-year course of the drug and one in five regularly forget to take a tablet.

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Of course, some will fail and they can be paid off with a monthly sum, but most will succeed given the resources.

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The risk, of course, is that a payroll service company will receive employer payroll funds but fail to remit them to the employees, taxing authorities, or others entitled to them.

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Boards fail to grasp that, in this situation, they cannot rely upon the consultant to advise them against a course of action in which the consultant has a substantial financial interest.

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Of course, if you thought the tender offer were going to fail then it was not such a good deal, since you would expect the stock to drop back down to the mid-twenties.

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