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Truth stranger than fiction.


The consultant for the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. , or PhRMA, "commissioned a thriller thrill·er  
n.
One that thrills, especially a sensational or suspenseful book, story, play, or movie.


thriller
Noun
 novel whose aim was to scare the living daylights out of folks who might want to buy cheap drugs from Canada, reports the New York Daily News New York Daily News

Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S.
. The pharmaceutical lobby pulled out of the deal.
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Title Annotation:consultant commissions thriller novel
Publication:The Progressive
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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