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“I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street... I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.” BigsEnergyCompanyTakenStreetsBrotherWallDrugElementsComplexesEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
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“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsMayLongBookStoriesReadingLiteratureNamesLanguageHoursNumbersCompanyNovelWrittenWorstEventsComplexesInternationalDetailsLondonNarrativeCodeProseDescriptionDefiniteLong WaySan FranciscoDescribingCurriculumStylistJournalisticRenownedDa Vinci Code Author:Geoffrey K. Pullum
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.” JobsNationsCausesNaturalResultsCompanyProgressAmountTaxesLaborComplexesOperationsExpertsRegulationEmployers Author:Oliver DeMille
“Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return.” SimpleCompanyProductsReturnCostDrugEconomicsDollarsComplexesBillionsTraditionalSufficientExpensiveFundVenturePharmaceuticalTailored Author:David Mixner