The right to vote is a fundamental guarantee for all American citizens. This settlement agreement continues our unprecedented commitment to ensuring voting access to every citizen.

This agreement serves the important goal of hiring qualified police officers in full compliance with the law. We applaud the City of Virginia Beach for working cooperatively with us to make certain that qualified applicants who can well perform the job's important public safety mission will not be unfairly screened out because of unnecessary job requirements.

We are gratified by the commitment of the North Carolina Board of Elections and its Executive Director, Gary Bartlett, to assure that military members and overseas voters have a meaningful opportunity to participate in the State's second primary elections. These measures provide an immediate solution while the Legislature adopts permanent procedures, as we trust they will promptly.

There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table.

Randy has come through an unprecedented ordeal and continues to improve.

This agreement builds on Bristol-Myers Squibb's long-standing commitment to the global fight against AIDS.