The promise of stem cell research is that instead of prescribing medication and rehabilitation for people with heart attacks, strokes, spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, we will cure them.

Before we opened, we did some research on the North Shore and we found that people wanted both Italian and seafood. Those are the two things we heard the most, and we thought, let's give 'em both.

This research proves that the promise of massive operational savings is unrealistic when you take into account the costs of procurement and ongoing contract management.

These pension liabilities, the promise to pay large amounts to employees when they retire, have made a lot of companies uncompetitive, ... It becomes a slippery slope.

Embryonic stem cell research offers enormous promise to conquering many devastating and catastrophic diseases, ... California is leading the way, but unfortunately this research will be stopped in its tracks if some in Washington get their way. That is why I am so pleased to report that California is united behind keeping all avenues of research open to scientists.

We continue to deliver on the promise we made when we began our turnaround in 1997 of achieving annual double digit earnings growth, ... Our results this quarter were again driven by strong growth in the U.S., where prescription sales increased 28 percent.