They both assumed leadership in their disciplines at relatively early ages and could have rested on laurels.
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Both Biogen and IDEC, he reasons, have recently done licensing deals with Genentech over relatively early stage research.
Both companies were relatively early in their efforts to restructure their core businesses.
Relatively early in the primary season, says Anthony Corrado of Colby College, candidates must create campaigns that can compete nationwide.
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Mr Blaxland responded that Amir at a "relatively early stage" did not return the large number of calls made to him.
The husband, the higher earner, believes he's going to die relatively early and the wife thinks she'll live a long time.
President Demirel may surprise everybody by appointing a neutral caretaker government to carry the country through to a relatively early election.
It would help British businesspeople to think bigger, too: the absence of funding for growth is one reason some sell up at a relatively early stage.
When it shows up in children, it's a sign of "accelerated aging, " Dr. Urbina said, and likely raises the risk of dangerous outcomes relatively early in adult life.
While RIM will be relatively early and seemingly competitive in the tablet space next year, the company still has a long way to go before catching up with smartphones.
By the time that all the petitions that were declared void for this error were thrown out, Governor Perry was well below the 10K mark, and was disqualified relatively early in the process.
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Second, the public markets loved biotech, so it was easy to raise money at attractive prices and provide exits for VC investors even when these companies were at relatively early stages of development.
Professor Tuszynski said that although it was still relatively early days, if the findings were confirmed it would be the first treatment that doctors had to actually prevent cell death in people with neurological diseases.
But, given the difficulty the government will face in keeping a force of this size and composition in the Gulf indefinitely, this week's deployment suggests it is planning for a relatively early and short war.
This is surprising for a U.S. based company, but Las Vegas Sands was quick to realize the slowing domestic growth and made investments in these foreign markets relatively early and is now reaping the benefits it.
The Food and Drug Administration has given record-fast approvals to Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec and Millennium 's (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Velcade based on relatively early-stage data in these diseases.
This case was relatively early in the history of ERISA. You have to wonder whether, in the heat of fending off a takeover attempt, it even crossed the mind of Mr. Bierwirth and the other trustees that using the pension assets for that purpose was even ethically dubious, much less something that opened them to personal liability.
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The next chairman may have to be relatively hawkish early on, to bolster his inflation-quashing credentials.
If markets remained relatively buoyant early this week, that was doubtless because they were waiting for central banks to step into the breach yet again.
While Asian investors consider the possibility of a US credit downgrade to an unlikely scenario of a default on US sovereign debt, market declines were relatively tepid early out.
The retrospective and a concurrent show of notably strong new pictures at the Marian Goodman gallery give a strange impression of development in reverse: an artist doing his relatively uncomplicated early work last.
But using that car for the first few races has the benefit of ensuring they do not risk poor reliability with a relatively unproven car early in the season.
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But the relatively high cost of early contract cancellation suggests that people would be far better off protesting loudly with the hope that Verizon Wireless changes its mind.
Messi had been relatively subdued after his early brilliance, but he broke the shackles to burst clear and force another excellent save from Almunia as the Spanish giants refused to take a backward step.
Importantly, early success in relatively rare diseases seems to be translating into much broader potential for these medicines.
"Any kid who grows up in a relatively tough neighborhood gets quick early lessons in what the realities are, " he says.
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From my study of money managers, and particularly mutual fund managers, those with much larger-than-their normal cash positions miss the relatively easy winnings in the early stages of recovery.
During the introduction of most newly designed aircraft, typically "there are a certain number of things that get discovered early and are relatively easy to fix, " said Richard Healing, a former member of the NTSB.
An analysis by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation in 2009 showed that the cost of this achievement has been relatively modest and well within early projections of how much the state would have to spend to implement reform.
So if you can correct any errors very early, it is relatively cheap in terms of fuel.
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