If filed, such suits could last for years until the drugs lose the patent protection that makes their high prices possible.
What Mr. Freeman must do now is negotiate the best prices possible for the state to buy energy, and pass it along to the state's major shareholder-owned utilities.
They expect the companies to defend their products in court, and the cases could last for years until the drugs lose the patent protection that makes their high prices possible.
We want "everyday low prices," but we feel great affinity for small, local businesses and, as recent controversies about Wal-Mart opening stores in big cities attest, we are often hostile to the large enterprises that make such prices possible.
And when I look at the list of "community benefits" H&F lists, I wonder how much of it Capco would have needed to cough up for anyway if the 6,000 flats and houses it wants to build for market sale are to fetch the highest prices possible.
Such heavy borrowing makes high prices possible (see chart), even as high prices make heavy borrowing necessary.With so much money at stake, every homeowner, house-hunter and buy-to-letter in Britain is an amateur meteorologist, watching for storms on the horizon.
