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Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN (http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=AMGN&selected=AMGN)) is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. In fact, Amgen claims it is the largest, with 12,800 staff members in 2003. Its products include Aranesp, ENBREL, EPOGEN, Kineret, Neulasta, NEUPOGEN, and Sensipar. BusinessWeek (as cited in "References") ranked Amgen fourth on the S&P 500 for being the most "future-oriented" of those five hundred corporations. BusinessWeek ostensibly calculated the ratio of research and development spending, combined with capital spending, to total outlays. (Amgen had the fourth highest ratio, at 506:1000).
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The Human Rights Campaign reports that Amgen's corporate foundation donated $18,000 in 2001 and 2002 to James Dobson's Focus on the Family, an evangelical Christian organization.
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