In addition to the raise, Apple has previously agreed to an independent investigation of their manufacturing facilities by their Fair Labor Association, seemingly in response to a New York Times investigation into unsafe working conditions.

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Such incidents are extremely rare in the English game although there was a second one this season, there hadn't been any in the Premier League since the mid-1990s and the Football Association, the body that governs soccer in England, set up an independent commission to adjudicate.

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Last March, following accusations by independent bloggers in Japan and Germany, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued an Expression of Concern about five papers published in AHA journals co-authored by the chief investigator of the Kyoto Heart Study, Hiroaki Matsubara, who was a prominent cardiologist and researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan.

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