I am sitting in my Jackson hotel room watching HBO because hey that is
what one does in one's hotel room on a late Friday
of course tonite is Def poetry
So who is the host. I don't recognize him. That is not Mos is it.
The new herd is interesting only as I have not seen them before. This
is a half hour show? cos I only saw a half hour maybe there was more.
The averageness is interesting. Not a real stand out hit you in the
head gasp level authority of the word showed up.
I guess they have a whole season to impress me
The commercials are all about Beau. What was it they used to say in
those commercials Beau don't something something?
I have a friend who signs his email often with peace and carats.
This reminds me that I really have always wanted an orange diamond.
this is fer real. I am not making this up.
so keep your eye out for a nice one
aint no time to hate
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:49:49 -0500, marika
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>
> I wa ssupposed to go to Jackson, Hattiesburg and Tupelo and then Maybe NC
>
> I am ending up in Jackson and Hattiesburg for now
>
> From: jake (invalid@
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> Subject: drug company employees wriggle off hook
> This is the only article in this thread
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> Date: 2004-07-14 21:46:05 PST
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> Last updated 11:50 a.m. PT
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> 8 drug company employees are acquitted
>
>
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> teractive
>
> By KEN MAGUIRE
> ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
>
> BOSTON -- Eight pharmaceutical company employees were acquitted
> Wednesday of
> charges they offered kickbacks to doctors in the form of consulting fees,
> dinners, golf trips and other favors to get them to prescribe certain
> drugs.
>
> The case against TAP Pharmaceutical Products had been closely watched by
> the
> drug industry and the medical profession, which have been criticized in
> recent years for giving and receiving freebies. Critics say the practice
> drives up the already high costs of prescription drugs and erodes public
> confidence that doctors are prescribing the right medicines.
>
> The federal jury deliberated for parts of four days following a
> three-month
> trial.
>
> Prosecutors argued that the TAP employees lavished golf and ski trips,
> free
> dinners and other incentives on doctors, along with free drug samples, in
> exchange for the physicians' agreement to prescribe TAP's prostate cancer
> drug Lupron and the heartburn medicine Prevacid.
>
> The government also charged that current and former executives and sales
> managers at Lake Forest, Ill.-based TAP conspired to defraud Medicare and
> Medicaid by urging doctors to bill the government for the free drug
> samples.
>
>
>
> The defense contended that it is standard practice and not illegal to
> offer
> freebies and that the doctors were not obligated in return to prescribe
> TAP's drugs The defense also said the employees never encouraged doctors
> to
> bill Medicare and Medicaid for the free samples.
>
> The jury acquitted the TAP employees on those charges as well.
>
> TAP itself was not on trial. The government settled with the company in
> 2001
> for $875 million.
>
>
>
>
> --
> 'All policymakers must be vigilant to the possibility of research data
> being
> manipulated
> by corporate bodies and of scientific colleagues being seduced by the
> material charms of
> industry.
> Trust is no defence against an aggressively deceptive corporate sector.'
>
> Editorial (2000). Resisting smoke and spin. Lancet 355, 1197.
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