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Bruce
 
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Default Why wood prices are going up

In rec.woodworking
Renata wrote:

Interesting how he sees that the pharma companies spend billions on
research and yet he doesn't see that the oil companies do the same drilling
dry holes.

They spend more on marketing than research of late.

Tell me why an "established', been-around-a while-medicine went from ~
$40 to $200 in about a year?

Renata

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:09:17 GMT, "Mike in Mystic"
wrote:


"Charlie Self" wrote in message

--snip--
pharmaceutical companies didn't put the screws to consumers.



Pharmaceutical companies do nothing of the sort, at least not in general and
in actuality not even very often. They spend billions of dollars a year
funding research to find medicines. --snip--
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