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  • While these so-called gray-market resellers can provide life-saving drugs that are in low supply, they charge on average sevenfold the typical contract price, with some surgical and other medically critical treatments increasing 20-fold, according to a survey by the Premier Healthcare Alliance.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • While these so-called gray-market resellers can provide life-saving drugs that are in low supply, they charge on average sevenfold the typical contract price, with some surgical and other medically critical treatments increasing 20-fold, according to a survey by the Premier Healthcare Alliance.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Among the company's outstanding debts is 958 million yuan in gray-market borrowing from China's informal trust sector due next April, Moody's said.

    Pinch on China Developers James T. Areddy 2011

  • "We back-tracked through different levels of gray-market dealers back," he said.

    Five Held in Huge Chip Theft Don Clark 2011

  • Banks can only look on as black- and gray-market lenders reap higher returns lending at market interest rates to private companies.

    China's Self-Reforming Banks? 2011

  • The measures include successive increases in banks' reserve-requirement ratios, multiple interest-rate increases, stricter capital rules, more frequent stress tests on the potential impact of falling property prices and a crackdown on gray-market financing from trust companies.

    ICBC Profit Rises 28% 2011

  • These measures include higher mortgage rates and downpayment requirement, more frequent stress tests on the impact of a decline in property prices and a crackdown on gray-market financing from trust companies.

    Shanghai Pudong Bank Sees Surge in 2010 Profit 2011

  • These measures include higher requirements for banks' capital adequacy, higher mortgage rates and down-payment requirements, more frequent stress tests on the impact of a decline in property prices, and a crackdown on gray-market financing from trust companies.

    S&P Warns of Profit Squeeze for China's Banks 2011

  • You can spot the duds who are going to lose in straight sets because they wear Khmer Rouge headbands and Dollar General ensembles that make them look like gray-market Playmobil figures.

    Tennis, Anyone? How About Ouzo Shrimp? Joe Queenan 2011

  • Nevertheless, hospitals and clinics attempting to "cut corners" might buy drugs from "more of a gray-market distributor than might be wise," said Mark Davison , an industry consultant and author of the book "Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting: Combating the Real Danger from Fake Drugs."

    Fakes Infiltrate Injectable Drugs Jonathan D. Rockoff 2012

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