The carrier is also offering an option of zero interest financing for post-paid customers.
"If there was low interest financing of some of these measures, it would make it very attractive to developing countries".
The formal legalization of PACs effectively institutionalized and legitimized what amounts to a massive system of special-interest financing of federal campaigns.
Dr. Olivieri contends she wrote the article because of what she viewed as Apotex's conflict of interest in financing her research for the drug and, she said, its effort to suppress questions she had about the drug's potential toxicity.
Griffith said he initially met with resistance -- piles of paperwork to file, approvals to obtain, proof of interest and financing plans.
For the ten countries of interest, the financing systems were analyzed to determine whether they affected the reimbursement decision of expensive anti-cancer drugs.
G.M., whose sales rose 6percentt last month, sweetened the pot for consumers on Thursday, offering $1,000 cash back on top of no-interest financing for many of its sport utilities and pickups, in a promotion it called "Truckfest".
But car and truck sales in North America continued to produce only slight, albeit improving, returns for G.M. The company has been losing market share in the United States despite heavy spending on rebates as high as $5,000 and offers of no-interest financing for many of its vehicles.
G.M. did record a profit of $601 million last year and has been the most resilient of the Big Three during the recession, but its earnings fell 58percentt from a year earlier, partly as a result of the high cost of no-interest financing deals the Big Three offered.
U.S. auto sales surged to record levels in October, despite the general economic downturn and terror attacks of Sept. 11, as consumers took advantage of zero-interest financing offers and demonstrated faith in a future unseen by the much ballyhooed consumer confidence surveys.
