Roller Coasting

摘要

Joseph C. Cook Jr. still shud-ders when he thinks about his ordeal. In late February 1998 he was dining at a Miami restaurant when his pager beeped. It was an urgent call from Amylin Pharmaceuticals, the San Diego biotech company on whose board he served. A fax had unfurled in the company's mail-room, the caller said. The message: "We hereby notify you of our intention to discontinue our partnership...," signed by Johnson & Johnson.