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TELLURIAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., was Civilization's oldest and most conservative drug house. "Hide-bound" was the term most frequently used, not only by its younger employees, but also by its more progressive competitors. But, corporatively, Tellurian Pharmaceuticals, Inc., did not care. Its board of directors was limited by an iron-clad, if unwritten, law to men of seventy years more; and against the inertia of that ruling body the impetuosity of the younger generation was exactly as efficacious as the dashing of ocean waves against an adamantine cliff-and in very much the same fashion.
Ocean waves do in time cut into even the hardest rock; and, every century or two, TPI did take forward step-after a hundred years of testing by others had proved conclusively that the "new" idea conformed in every particular with the exalted standards of the Galactic Medical Association.