This acquisition follows a wave of consolidation in biotechnology, as larger companies try to sit at the big pharma table and smaller ones seek shelter from the vicissitudes of the stock market.

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Some public-health experts talk of changing an environment where the worst choices are the easiest to make, especially for those without the time and money to seek out better ones supermarkets crammed with ready meals, happy hours in pubs, roads too dangerous for children to walk to school.

ECONOMIST: Public health

They'll put new prosecutors on the case, good ones, and seek to vindicate themselves.

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Making a neighborhood a historic district doesn't stop development, but it does make it impossible for developers to raze many of the existing structures and requires them to seek commission approval for new ones on vacant lots.

WSJ: Mayor of Preservation

Yet Brian Coulton of Fitch, a rating agency, points out that this reflects falling German yields (as investors seek ultra-safe havens) rather than rising Italian ones.

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And it will mean all companies will have to seek customers by offering better products, instead of more deceptive ones.

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At many points along this journey, we seek or get guidance from well-meaning peers, friends, family, and loved ones who advise us what we should desire and what we should avoid.

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At the ministerial meeting in May it is expected to seek the right to opt out of any clauses that it finds unacceptable, such as the ones imposing an advertising ban and a minimum size for health warnings on cigarette packs.

ECONOMIST: Quitting is tough

Det Supt Willie Semple said: ''The victims in this case were a vulnerable, trusting young couple who only wanted to seek out work and the relative prosperity that comes with it, so they could help to provide for loved ones and make a life for themselves.

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