JC

John Cairns

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Quotes by John Cairns

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The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn't even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research... New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children.
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Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established.
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If you think about it, the non-conference games really don't matter. So right now, having an off week going into conference, that means we can get everyone healthy.
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IM is becoming a mainline way in which people do work in the enterprise and customers have been asking for a secure IM client, and we are now offering them this. This is the workhorse release for business users.
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They're certainly not achieving their cost of capital, although they are moving in the right direction. At the end of the day, they are very much price takers in a number of their core businesses.
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There is no way to protect assets legally in the face of a judgment, other than paying the judgment or filing for bankruptcy.
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Banks, by law, are required to know their customers. What becomes difficult from the banks' point of view is being suspect of a situation that may or may not prove to be something wrong.
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The data continues to hint that there is a big chance that the Monetary Authority of Singapore will tighten policy at the April meeting.
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The overall low risk aversion environment means that these risks aren't being priced correctly.
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We'll find out more when I get an X-ray. They want to get me back in there, but they don't want me to hurt it again.
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