11.   One pharmacy benefits management company complained this week that the drugs are vastly overprescribed.

12.   Park recently bought more shares of the First Health Group, a national health benefits company based in Downers Grove, Ill.

13.   The plan called for Medicare to give its seal of approval to a number of private discount cards that would be marketed by prescription drug benefit management companies.

14.   The White House, for example, would have the agency that runs Medicare negotiate with one benefit company per region to organize coverage for most enrollees.

15.   Anti-globalization movements say production of genetically altered foods mainly benefit multinational companies.

16.   The loans will be made on condition they directly benefit Japanese companies operating in the region, the mass-circulation Asahi Shimbun said.