Use of these technologies has to be approved for personal use every three years by the Librarian of Congress -- but even when approved -- developing, trafficking and selling the technologies is still illegal.

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About nine out of ten business loans are rejected, but when Lendio matches borrowers with lenders, they are approved seven out of ten times.

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But the landscape changed a year ago when the FDA approved yet another drug for wet AMD, Eylea, which is sold by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

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But we have no idea when this drug will be approved--and both Bristol and ImClone have been shedding credibility like heavy clothes on a hot day.

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When the resulting proposals are approved, individual countries will have no choice but to adopt the measures.

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The two companies recently announced plans for several new large trials of Erbitux, but it is still not clear when--or if--Erbitux will be approved.

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But when a parliamentary committee met at the start of this month, the unchanged plans were approved by nine votes to seven.

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That approach can land an executive in jail when the deals he approved torpedo the company--and there is nothing but a bunch of hopeful spin to explain them.

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VelaPharm Chief Executive Kevin L. Keim remembers seeing the tofisapam molecule, which was approved as a niche anxiety drug in 15 countries but never became a big seller, when he worked at Roche, alongside Valium inventor Leo Sternbach.

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