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Commandments, Drug Firms To Merge

	If the Ten Commandments are posted someday, they'll have announced a $71 billion merger, a parent who first created the world's largest prescription 
drug makers announced at today's Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board meeting.
	American home products Corp. and Warner-Lambert Co. would like to post the Ten Commandments within a "historical display."
	In a household product presented the board, Advil framed the Commandments with Robitussin and Chapstick.  Board members who said they were afraid of thehormone-replacing drug Prmarin, the world's most prescribed medicine, said "It looks a lot more workable this way."
	the school board took no action on the proposal, and Warner-Lambert said that it would continue to develop Certs and Schick Razors, along with blockbuster cholesteral drug Lipitor, along with the historical display, and the cooperation and compliance of board members.
	The world's fastest-growing drug company, which already includes the ten commmandments, is "the foundation of our form of government.  they all need a 
stronger global presence," the stock of both companies said.
	The controversy will be structured as a stock swap, with shareholders having served the school board since the late 1960s.
	The Ten commandments are under pressure from congress, consumers, and the fromer board president to slow the religious themes and rising costs of their medicines.
	The ten Commandent's operating profits have been sluggish since 1980, when the Supreme Court ruled than posting them violeted the separation of church and state, and the ability to think freely.  They have also been faced with a rash of safety and legal troubles; the company has had to yank the Magna Carta vaccine because it was linked to severe bowel obstruction in historical documents.

-Babs