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Regardless of whether the costs of unnecessary and unproductive validation efforts represent a significant portion of a laboratory s annual expense or a small decimal of its budget, managers have a fiduciary responsibility to control costs. If that responsibility is not exercised patients costs ultimately rise, a portion of needy patients are financially excluded from a beneficial treatment, and investors who might otherwise have funded valuable research and development efforts put their money in an Internet stock instead. Cost control isn t just good business it s good altruistic policy as well. 

I m sure you ve read or heard about the analyst firms listed above. During the all-night party of Internet stocks, when online brokerages would consistently experience ever-higher trading volumes and issue ambitious press releases, the above-mentioned research firms would produce a stream of reports on the state of the online financial services industry. The reports would make wild predictions for daily trades, market size, new products, demographic profiles, and technology adoption. 

Furthermore, the Internet saves people time shopping and running errands, no matter what they need to purchase or accomplish. You can place prescriptions online and purchase clothes and food on websites. You can even buy stocks and purchase a house online. If you are looking for a bargain or an unusual item, you can go to a popular auction site and either sell or buy. This ease in shopping makes life more flexible and easy. 

In terms of total returns to shareholders (TRS), too, the chemical industry has proved its staying power in recent years. Although it suffered badly during the Asian crisis, and the ensuing technology and Internet bubble at the end of the twentieth century did not bolster chemical stocks and at the same time lured investors away from more traditional plays, the new millennium has seen the chemical industry continuing to deliver TRS that is almost in line with the market (Fig. 5.1). 

Important changes in the book s content have also been driven by developments in the chemical industry s operating environment. The first edition went to press in early 2001, just as the Internet bubble was about to burst. The chemical industry had just seen itself dismissed as one of those bricks and mortar dinosaurs that would have no place in the new era. This perspective has now changed considerably. The industry s image - in the stock markets, but also in general - has improved significantly in the last five years. 

Step 1. Search the literature/internet for methods, including commercially available materials, for the determination of plutonium. List the materials needed by the various methods. Investigate catalogs, internet sites, vendors, and the chemistry stock room for information on the availability and cost of materials. Consider and record the advantages and drawbacks of various methods. 

An Internet based pesticides stock management system is in operation. FAO facilitated programs are operated in some ten developing countries. Under the Stockholm Convention most countries are planning actions for relevant substances. 

Abbott Park Road, Abbott Park, IL 60064-3500, USA Phone (708) 937-6100 Fax (708) 937-2013 Toll-free in U.S. (800) 323-9100 Internet http //www.abbott.com Stock ABT (NYSE)... 

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Beaver Street, Waltham, MA 02154, USA Phone (718) 893-5007 Fax (718) 893-8277 E-mail webmaster genomecorp.com Internet http //www.cric.com Stock GENE (NASDAQ)... 

Industrial Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA Phone (301) 984-8000 Fax (301) 230-0158 E-mail gurewitz igen.com Internet http //www.igen.com Stock IGEN (NASDAQ)... 

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Superior Street, Lincoln, NE 68505, USA Phone (402) 464-0231 Fax (402) 464-4543 E-mail info.sid isco.com Internet http //www.isco.com Stock ISKO (NASDAQ/NMS)... 

Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN 46285, USA Phone (317) 276-2000 Fax (317) 276-2095 Internet http //www.lilfy.com Stock LLY (NYSE)... 

Internet http //www.bio.com/companies/Millennium.html Stock LMNM (NASDAQ)... 

Ashby Road, Bedford, MA 01730-2271, USA Phone (781) 275-9200 Fax (781) 533-3301 E-mail Philip Onigman millipore.com Internet http //www. millipore.com Stock MIL (NYSE)... 

Wilderness PL, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80301, USA Phone (303) 444-5893 Fax (303) 444-0672 E-mail Kdoherty NeXstar.com Internet http //www.nexstar.com Stock NXTR (NASDAQ)... 

Perkin-Elmer Corp. / PE SCIEX / PE Applied Biosystems 761 Main Ave., Norwalk, CT 06859, USA Phone (203) 762-1000 Fax (203) 762-6000 Internet http //www.perkin-elmer.com http //www. pesciex.com Stock PKN (NYSE)... 

Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1 4EF, UK Phone 44 1753 692229 Fax 44 1753 692613 Internet http //www.xenova.co.uk Stock XNVAY (NASDAQ)... 

Hoover s. Phone - -1 866464-3202. URL http //www.hoovers. com. Hoover s is an online database of over 12 miUion public and private companies. There is in-depth coverage of about 40,000 of the world s top businesses. Coverage can include company overview, executives, financials, competitors, company history, and news. Users can search by company name, stock ticker symbol, keyword, and executive name. Access is available through Internet subscription. 

Since we are a consulting firm, many of our clients come to us with problems relating to consumer products that can be found in and around the home, including toothpaste, shampoo, food products, and the like. The scavenger hunt activity identifies a number of chemicals that we often have needed in our stock and that can be found in a number of these consumer products. It then asks you to find a consumer product in which each chemical is found and investigate the various information sources and find the answer to some questions about these chemicals. You will notice that the activity calls for you to look up the MSDS sheet and find certain specific information. This also gives you valuable experience with the MSDS sheet. You may use the MSDS sheets found in the lab or look them up on the Internet. 

The reference sources to be used are the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (published by CRC Press LLC) the Merck Index CD-ROM (published by Chapman and Hall) the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) found in the lab or on the Internet, such as through the Fisher Chemical Company Web site (www.fisherl.com), or others suggested by your supervisor the labels on the stock containers of the chemicals found in the laboratory and the Fisher Chemical Company chemicals catalog. Your supervisor will demonstrate the use of each of these. Your supervisor may or may not require you to use your laboratory notebook for this work. Accordingly, a data sheet is provided. 

Never before the Internet arrived was such valuable corporate employment information made so abundantly and easily available to job seekers. (Even chemists who do not own computers or subscribe to Internet services can use the hardware, software, and services furnished by free public libraries.) Now, a growing number of pharmaceutical firms maintain richly detailed Web sites. The Internet addresses of nearly 400 companies and institutions that placed chemist-wanted advertisements during 1997-1999 appear in Appendix B. A great many of these sites devote one or more pages to employment opportunities where job seekers can expect to find information on a variety of related topics. The subjects include application guidelines, job banks and lines, employee benefits, and the pharmaceutical businesses in which the company engages. PerSeptive Biosystems and Protein Design Labs state on their Web sites the salaries they offer to chemists. Whether employees receive stock options or may purchase discounted company stock is disclosed on some corporate Web sites. 

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