Their views, of course, affect the fortunes of Parexel, PPD, Charles River Laboratories, Covance and many others.
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Eshelman is a stickler for low head counts and multitasking: The responsibilities of PPD's recently departed president will be redistributed among existing executives, for example.
Earnings growth has averaged 27% over the last five years, and a year ago PPD introduced the first and, to date, only dividend in the contract research industry.
The PPD on Global Development provides clear guidance to all Federal agencies and sets forth a new development policy, enhanced operational model, and modern architecture for U.S. development efforts.
WHITEHOUSE: FACT SHEET: The President��s Global Development Council
Hungry entrepreneurialism has turned PPD into one of the largest and leanest providers of clinical trial services to the drug and biotech industries (Covance and private Quintiles are the biggest overall).
On September 15, 2010, the President signed the Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) on Global Development, which underscores that development is vital to national security and is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative for the United States.
WHITEHOUSE: FACT SHEET: The President��s Global Development Council
Even though the bill may contain provisions that are problematic, it opens the door for business to ask Congress to limit the reach of the EO and PPD-21 by requiring all cybersecurity regulations to be specifically authorized by Congress.
Since nothing has been happening in Washington lately except speeches, President Obama seized the moment and ended his State of the Union day by issuing an Executive Order (EO) and Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) on critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Hungry entrepreneurialism has turned PPD into one of the largest and leanest providers of clinical trial services to the drug and biotech industries ( Covance (nyse: CVD - news - people ) and private Quintiles are the biggest overall).
And then on Wednesday, November 14, Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post reported that a secret Presidential Policy Directive (PPD 20) had been signed that grants the Department of Defense the legal basis it needed to engage in offensive network attacks to protect itself.
For anyone following events in Puerto Rico, this was the year, of course, that Puerto Rico formally voted to reject its status quo identity as a commonwealth of the US while simultaneously voting in as governor a leader of the PPD, the party most closely identified with defending the status quo.
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