Barbara Ryan
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"Barbara Ann Coleman" is a fictional character from the American CBS Daytime/CBS soap opera As the World Turns. In the early 1970s, Barbara was played by a succession of actresses, but the actress most associated with the role is Colleen Zenk, who played her since September 1, 1978. Better known as simply "Barbara Ryan" she is portrayed as a heroine who experienced many tragedies, mostly at the hands of her controlling ex-husband, the villainous James Stenbeck (Anthony Herrera).

Over her 32 years on the show, Barbara has been shot through the heart, nearly gored by a bull in Spain, kidnapped 15 times, married nine times, burned in a chemical explosion and jumped out of a three-story window.

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Investors don't want to make the bet because it's too hard to call.

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Pfizer clearly is a company with tremendous disregard for the generic drug industry and is not given to settling. But it is not altogether unlikely that Pfizer could settle its litigation. If Pfizer could translate some of its cash hoards into greater certainty on this litigation ... I think they would do that.

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There is a 10-year lag in R&D spending, ... The spending that they're doing today isn't going to be visible in terms of products for quite some time.

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In our view, Pfizer is in fact defensive and has demonstrated that it can weather the blows in a measured fashion due to its dramatic scale advantage and strong balance sheet.

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It's a potentially politically charged issue because you're talking about vaccinating people against sexually transmitted diseases when they're 12 or 13.

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A lot of their big drugs are going to lose patent protection, without the introduction of new drugs that will offset that, ... buy.

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The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.

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If it's universally recommended then obviously people are going to be getting the vaccine much more broadly.

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The only way this company can improve their earnings is through pursuing a merger or by being acquired. It's not very innovative, but it's what they're going to have to do.

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