Updated on April 17, 2007
79. Rice News: Eli Lilly sales up despite 39% earnings drop
The latest quarter included a charge of 8 cents per share for costs from restructuring some manufacturing operations, mostly related to job cuts at its Lafayette, Ind. But the results exceeded Wall Street forecasts, and the company boosted its full-year financial targets. They noted that products launched this decade account for 30 percent of overall sales, up from 22 percent in the same quarter last year. Sales of top-seller Zyprexa, a schizophrenia drug, climbed 10 percent to $1. Company...
Source - Newark Star Ledger,NJ - Read the story
80. Rice News: Americans not switched on by 24/7 news
Americans' knowledge of national and international affairs has changed little in two decades despite the emergence of 24-hour cable news and the internet as major news sources. However, nearly half 49 per cent correctly answered that Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the House of Representatives now, compared with 14 per cent who in 1989 correctly named Tom Foley as speaker, perhaps because Ms Pelosi made history as the House's first femalespeaker. Two-thirds correctly named their state's...
Source - The Canberra Times,Australia - Read the story
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