Until we get into the math and formulas get changed, nothing will change.

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In the meantime these folks at the other end are out their own, many losing pensions so I am finding a lot more difficult these days to get too excited over formulas that are just intangibles that create and live off of other intangibles.

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And I will keep on reaching out and seeing if there are other formulas or other ways to jigger this thing into place so that we get a better result.

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Flock said companies they talk to want to get the model in one place and make sure everyone is using the same numbers and formulas.

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Teva, which began in 1901 as a wholesaler and importer of drugs, at first grew in part because Israel's lack of data-exclusivity laws allowed it to learn the formulas of imported drugs from the government, after their manufacturers filed the data to get regulatory approval.

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