Big Pharma
n.— «Big Pharma, as it is known, offered everything: the hopes and dreams we have of it; its vast, partly realized potential for good; and its pitch-dark underside, sustained by huge wealth, pathological secrecy, corruption and greed.» —“Weisz enjoyed filming Gardener in Kenya” by Dixie Reid in San Francisco Houston Chronicle (Texas) Sept. 1, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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