In negotiating details of the recall, Fisher-Price and the government agreed to withhold details from the public until Thursday to give stores time to get suspect toys off shelves and Fisher-Price time to get its recall hot line up and running.

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The company needs to determine a meaningful way to get its brand powered up again, and time is running out.

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With Arcoxia, Merck is failing to get its own new drug approved while at the same time dredging up all the bad feelings that came from Vioxx.

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The company recently told industry analysts that it would postpone its annual Spring meeting until the Fall so that it has time to get a new CEO up and running.

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This was the second time the government had ended up paying top dollar to get a bank off its hands.

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And, you know, Congress, last time they brought this up with baseball, it forced baseball to get tougher with its performance-enhancing drug testing and program.

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