Pharmaceutical companies must typically invest many years and hundreds of millions of dollars to win approval for a drug; partly for this reason, some promising treatments are never approved, and many arrive too late for people who urgently need them.
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Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Factor in a tax multiplier for those who repeatedly spend past the salary cap, and payroll expenses can include hundreds of millions in taxes.
The possible walkout could involve tens of thousands of employees and affect more than 500,000 students across the nation’s second-largest school district.
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Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
Even the low-end estimates, around 10%, would amount to tens of thousands of women.
LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
Messi, for example, has a lifetime deal with Adidas that will comfortably run into hundreds of millions of dollars, while Ronaldo signed a lifetime deal with Nike in 2016.
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Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
With just one season of eligibility remaining, expect Fielder to land with a Power Four program in a deal worth a lot of dollars.
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