51.  And it would not apply to hundreds of clinical trials conducted by pharmaceutical companies and academic medical centers.

52.  And since pharmaceutical companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to bring a drug to market, withdrawals have a harsh financial impact as well.

53.  And the White House abruptly reversed itself this week on Bayer AG, the German pharmaceutical company that makes Cipro, the antibiotic of choice to treat anthrax.

54.  And pharmaceutical companies pay substantially more for factory work than other industries.

55.  And with the same cheerful pragmatism he pointed out that all pharmaceutical companies were anything but altruistic organizations.

56.  And when you hear pharmaceutical companies are rich, believe it.

57.  Another believer is Tanya Lewis of Stoughton, a manager for a pharmaceutical company.

58.  Another pharmaceutical company has agreed to give away its experimental AIDS drug to people in late stages of the disease.

59.  Another vaccine is produced by the U.S. subsidiary of the French pharmaceutical company Pasteur-Merieux Connaught.

60.  And, of course, several pharmaceutical companies have their own reasons for pushing the agency to allow such a thing.