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RAPACIOUS Pfizer drug company boss Ian Read insulted MPs with an arrogant display of US corporate Newspeak yesterday.
Mr Read faced sharp questioning over a feared jobs massacre if Pfizer succeeds in taking over AstraZeneca, which employs 7,000 people in Britain.
Commons business committee chairman Adrian Bailey MP said the company had been variously described as “a praying mantis” and “a shark that needs feeding.”
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