Nor is the CRO inclined to minimise the arduousness of its own special task.
After all, whether a Cro-Magnon or a Myhrvold, no bone collector wants to get skinned.
The Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) and Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO) media markets are the result.
One last point: the feature that biopharmas found most important in choosing a CRO is therapeutic expertise.
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Sometimes it works: On one blurry YouTube clip making the rounds, pop star Christina Aguilera bellows "Mi-cro-soft!"
The earliest fish hooks were probably carved out of wood more than 30, 000 years ago by Cro-Magnon man.
Think of the CRO, therefore, as the executive predicting the tides themselves.
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Instead of entering full sentences into Google's search field, Pell points out, we've been conditioned to use Cro-Magnon collections of disconnected words.
The department that needs strengthening is the CRO, and perhaps it is the department that should now do most of the forward thinking.
Incredibly, whenever a study site reported a clinical event, GSK and its contract research organization (CRO), knew immediately which drug the patient was receiving.
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To hear more on this topic, join the debate at the CRO Summits in Paris (Oct 29) and in Chicago (Nov 3-4).
This dynamic, coupled with the increasing sophistication and specialization of the CRO ecosystem, has enabled the creation of single-asset deals with defined liquidity paths via structured buyouts.
But during the alignment this summer, they will pass within 34.7 million miles (55.8 million kilometers), thought to be the closest encounter since Cro-Magnon man ruled the Earth.
Anthropologists now believe Homo sapiens succeeded, unlike other members of the genus Homo, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon for example, because our brains had a greater capacity for speech and language.
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Capital planning does enjoy high-level attention with responsibility roughly divided between the CRO and the CFO, or the demand side of capital and the supply side, according to the report.
It's not too far a stretch to imagine some Cro-Magnon connoisseur hoarding the same dinosaur bones Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold keeps today in his giant warehouse in Redmond, Wash. (see " The Intense Dilettante").
Nevertheless, the CRO has practical reasons for arguing that there must be a formal break between the last of the colonial stages of a country's development and the first of the stages of adult nationhood.
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