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NIH to Ban Deals With Drug Firms
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — Under a far-reaching reform to be announced today, all staff scientists at the National Institutes of Health will be banned from accepting any consulting fees or other income from drug companies, and the employees must also divest...Tags: Ethics, Los Angeles Times, Companies and Corporations, Lyndon B. Johnson, Career and Workplace
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Baseball balks at authority of House
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - Major League Baseball challenged the authority yesterday of a House committee that issued subpoenas ordering seven current and former baseball stars, including two Orioles, to appear at a hearing next week on steroid use. Baseball's...Tags: Major League Baseball, Rafael Palmeiro, New York Yankees, Political Corruption, Jose Canseco
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Firm may have overbilled in Iraq
From Times staff and wire reportsWASHINGTON -- Pentagon investigators have found evidence that Vice President Dick Cheney's former company may have overcharged the Army as much as $61 million for fuel that it trucked into Iraq, senior defense officials said Thursday. The overcharges...Tags: Armed Forces, Petroleum Industry, Republican Party, Companies and Corporations, Corporate Crime
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House to seek tougher rules on steroid use in pro sports
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - Athletes in five major professional sports leagues would be subjected to an unforgiving steroid-testing regimen under terms of legislation to be introduced next week in the House of Representatives. As two days of congressional hearings...Tags: Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, Shaquille O'Neal, Washington Wizards, Elijah E. Cummings
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Halliburton deal for Iraq work rises to $76.7 million
Associated PressWASHINGTON - The no-bid contract that Halliburton Co. received to extinguish fires at Iraqi oil wells has risen to $76.7 million, pushed higher after the government gave Vice President Dick Cheney's former company the added job of restarting Iraq's oil...Tags: Petroleum Industry, California, Companies and Corporations, Corporate Crime, Halliburton Company
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Aids Will Gouge U.S. Health Care Budget
Of The Morning CallA revolution is sweeping across the health care industry, and it has turned medicine into big business. Bigger health systems mean better care, say some analysts. Others predict a crisis in which compassion is replaced by Wall Street toughness. Morning...Tags: Social Issues, Companies and Corporations, Insurance, Economy, Business and Finance, Maine
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