Does it increase the amount of money for which Merck is liable? I would say no, because Merck hasn't been proven to be liable for anything.
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ANTHONY BUTLER Merck is not dumb. They're not in the business of losing money.
JEFFREY KRAWS Most people watching this litigation closely thought that Merck ought to win it. Despite the charact...
CARL W. TOBIAS I think the whole liability situation becomes manageable for Merck.
HEMANT SHAH Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir...
D.T. SUZUKI Merck has been extremely good to me over the years,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI It makes sense because both Merck and Schering are too small to compete. Sentiment is good for merge...
ALEXANDER GROSCHKE It makes sense because both Merck and Schering are too small to compete.
ALEXANDER GROSCHKE For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars o...
LYNN TURNER It is hard to say how much we are liable to pay.
KAI NIELSEN Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD I think people are coming to the realization that this is going to be a marathon that's going to be ...
BARBARA RYAN I'd hate to bet against Mark Lanier. He knows how to beat them. I would say the odds are probably ag...
JASON NAPODANO It certainly will encourage more people to sue. This is going to be a decade-long process. It's prob...
LES FUNTLEYDER Merck has been hopelessly disappointing. The profit development is significantly below forecasts des...
HEINO RULAND Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 20...
CHRISTOPHER SEEGER Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 20...
CHRISTOPHER SEEGER I feel pretty good. I'm proud of the folks at Merck.
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SHANNON MCSWEENEY This could expose Merck to substantial liabilities.
CARL TOBIAS Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find ou...
DAVID LLOYD [Merck] has a lot of nice vaccines in the works, but none of them are blockbusters, ... [Merck] has ...
FRAN HAWTHORNE We've seen a decade of deception by Merck.
MARK LANIER Nobody wants to be liable for any kind of accident that might happen to them.
WILL MOORE Merck is taking the position that they are going to fight every one of these cases and we're going t...
ANDY BIRCHFIELD Merck is pleased that it has the opportunity to develop what appears to be a very promising treatmen...
ELMAR SCHNEE Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMS It is still too early to know if (Merck) will be able to win cases on a consistent basis,
ALBERT RAUCH You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.
JERRY COLEMAN Plans made without allowance for the intentions of the enemy are liable to miscarry.
JOHN KEEGAN He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody.
BENEDICT LUCCHESI He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,
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FRAN HAWTHORNE This log remains under legal attachment ... but is for sale by tender. Whoever buys it, will have to...
ALAN REID I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the ma...
TERENCE MCELROY There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more ...
JAMES MADISON There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more ...
JAMES MADISON Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities...
LYSANDER SPOONER Not only do we think the state would be liable, we think it would be a horrible business practice fo...
MIKE TRIPLETT An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
WILL ROGERS Merck figures that the odds are with them over the years to fight them.
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MARK STEINBECK The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
WILL ROGERS I think the market kind of got walloped by the Merck verdict on Friday, and this may be a reflex ral...
BILL SUTHERLAND The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be lia...
JAMES MADISON Until we see some resolution of these issues, I think Merck and Pharmacia's stock will remain under ...
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WILD BILL HICKOK I have been running my own business as a sole trader now since 1976, and I was completely unaware th...
CHRIS FOSS Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VOLTAIRE What a jury is going to get is A, Merck fudged on the details. B, the fudge was in their favor. C, i...
MARK LANIER The way the original deal was set up, it was not terribly likely for anybody else to acquire Scherin...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Coca Cola is culpable, and therefore liable for the serious problems that are affecting the lives an...
AMIT SRIVASTAVA Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
WINSLOW HOMER We believe Merck has put in place an aggressive, but achievable strategic plan.
BARBARA RYAN 12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then l...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.
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BILL GOLDBERG Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little...
KATHERINE WHITEHORN We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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DENNIS HENIGAN Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for ma...
JOHN LENNON Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liabl...
BILL GOLDBERG The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then th...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life a...
HENRY SPENCER ASHBEE He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT We're looking at, in 30 years, what's going to be there. If you mess up, everything after that strug...
BILL MERCK Money that would have been available for maintenance gets pulled away. Deferred maintenance is reall...
BILL MERCK That's one of those events related to growth that there was no party over.
BILL MERCK When energy costs go up, we still get the same rate.
BILL MERCK The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage peopl...
HENRY REED Looking closer at the entire group, I think the clouds will clear on drug stocks sooner than on Merc...
JAMES DENNEY It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured....
ISAAC NEWTON The things that you're liable to read in the Bible: it ain't necessarily so.
GEORGE GERSHWIN Pedestrians should be aware they are more liable to be killed or injured, not motorists.
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MAHATMA GANDHI A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued...
MAHATMA GANDHI Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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OWEN FELTHAM Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELLTHAM Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELLTHAM Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
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CHUCK CLOSE Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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DAVID REDMOND In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
ALBERT CAMUS In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death
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ANTHONY SAMPSON Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake ...
FRANK ABAGNALE I am pleased this judge concluded that Merck made a wrong move by trying to run from justice in a Te...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
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