What makes Congress's failure to change the criteria for a small drug developer especially surprising is that outside the purview of the drug user fee legislation, the SBA's size limitation for a small business has been raised to 750 employees.

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At the time it became a debate about whether Iraq satisfied these criteria by its failure to abide by U.N. resolutions concerning disarmament.

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The proposal limits Y2K failure damages to actual business losses for companies that meet reasonable criteria.

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He has not made clear, though, what criteria he will use to assess the success or failure of the first opening of the taps.

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One of the prime criteria the government uses to judge the success, or failure, of a lottery project is by its contribution to local regeneration.

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