"One reason we're more efficient than (brand-name makers)is that we can hustle up business when there's a hole six months out, " Morean says.

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The playing field in that competition has just become a little friendlier to the makers of the brand name drugs: Pfizer, Sanofi, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline.

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Yet they take up to 90% of sales away from the comparable brand-name drugs whose makers risked the time and money to bring breakthrough treatments to market.

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On the other hand, the company enjoyed a strong name among ceramics makers, as well as having some lucrative defense contracts to get started on--and, shortly after the buyout, a robust stock market.

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While the game makers were tempted to use the shorter name, the long version won out, even though it took five lines of space to fit all the letters on the standard railroad square.

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Big Pharma has managed to completely undermine Hatch-Waxman's intent, which was to put in place mechanisms that encouraged generic drug makers to challenge the weak patents often used to protect brand-name drugs.

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You are not seeing these crazy prices for furniture makers like George Nakashima anymore, but he will remain a blue-chip name in American furniture in the future, regardless of the vagaries of the market right now.

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He also asked the film-makers to donate to a charitable foundation set up in Ms Ong's name, include a credit for Ms Ong and put a statement on its website and DVD release making it clear that the Ong family did not endorse torture, which is depicted in the film.

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