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AstraZeneca CEO reassures staff, aims to be at September cancer meet

AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot, responding to rumors he might leave the drugmaker to join rival Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, has told staff he expects to work together with employees to see the company succeed. A company spokeswoman added he was intending to attend the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) annual meeting in Madrid in September, assuming that AstraZeneca had clinical data on its new immunotherapy medicine ready to present at the event. Soriot did not comment on whether he had received a job offer from Teva in the internal memo to staff, which was sent out at the start of this week.


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GE earnings fall ahead of CEO transition

GE earnings fall ahead of CEO transition

General Electric reported lower second-quarter earnings Friday following a mixed performance of its industrial division as outgoing chief executive Jeff Immelt prepares to step down. GE in June announced that Immelt would step down as chief executive August 1, to be replaced by longtime executive John Flannery. GE has struggled to ignite strong growth in its industrial divisions after Immelt moved over the last two years to sell massive finance assets.


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A high-end bedbugger and the Buddhist view of attachment

Trucker Finn Murphy discusses life on the road, the job, and where this country is headed in his recently published trucking memoir.

It's difficult to decide what's more impressive about trucker Finn Murphy – that he's figured out how to make five to seven times more than the average truck driver or that he's just published a book with a major book company about his driving career and received laudatory attention ranging from the New York Times to the literary magazine

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