For more than a decade, the Commission has been toiling unsuccessfully in federal court, and in Congress, to prohibit so-called pay-for-delay or reverse payment drug patent settlements.
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In the 2006 budget-cutting "reconciliation" bill President George W. Bush signed this month, the best known student loan programs for middle-class families--Stafford loans for students and so-called PLUS loans for parents--took a big hit.
Ferenc Gyurcsany - the prime minister of Hungary, one of the worst affected EU countries - called for more Europe-wide support for individual nations.
Prop forward Scott Wilson, flankers Jack Allcock and Hugo Peterson and fly-half Jonathan Burn are the players called-up for a three-day development camp at Abingdon School between 16-19 February.
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They will deal whatever they have to get earmarks-not-called-earmarks for their states to ensure their own re-election.
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The breezy beast -- called WOW for short -- will be used to discover ways of making materials more, well, hurricane proof.
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One of the earliest algae companies, Algenol has been testing its tubes of ethanol-producing so-called photo-bioreactors for four years.
So I would stop, and the stopping actually led to the new - so-called new for me anyway - concept of being able to stop during a solo concert instead of playing 45 minutes straight so that an idea could come to some sort of fruition.
In November 2011 the All Party Group for Micro-Businesses called for the definition of a micro-business to be changed.
That could make it easier for doctors to get data about so-called off-label uses for a drug.
Just last month the Supreme Court heard arguments on the emerging (and lucrative) pharma business practice called pay-for-delay.
While many countries -- including the United States, France and Britain -- have called for al-Assad to step down, they have not agreed on whether to arm Syrian rebels.
All too often pundits and policymakers seek a single cause for social stratification when they should accept that in a nation where inequality in real monetary terms is increasing - and has been doing so for quite some time despite the so-called boom years - the reasons for being at the bottom of the heap are manifold.
Vijayan remains in the U.S., having applied for a so-called T visa--reserved for immigrants who claim to be victims of human trafficking.
Mr Cuomo also called for follow-up checks for people with handgun licences, to make sure they are still qualified to own their weapon, and longer sentences for gun crimes.
The mission -- called MAST (for Multi-Application Survivable Tether) -- is scheduled to begin April 17th with a payload launch on a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, after which the Washington state-based Tethers Unlimited's two anchor sats (less-cleverly dubbed Ted and Ralph -- um, hello, Penny and Brain...) will gradually separate until they've pulled the kilometer-long line taut.
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Fischler urged member states to take advantage of the so-called purchase for destruction scheme, a special six-month programme that pays farmers to have their older cattle destroyed.
Labour called a vote on its motion - which attacked changes to child benefit and called for more support for "hard-pressed families, pensioners and small businesses" - but it was defeated by the government by 284 votes to 220, majority 64.
The Libyan opposition, for instance, when they met with us and with Secretary Clinton and in their statements called for protection, called for a no-fly zone.
The Automobile Association urged members not to sign up for the so-called e-tags, which provide for toll discounts but also allow bank accounts to be charged every time a car passes under one of the gantries.
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Lydiate has been one of the stand-out performers for the Dragons this season and is one of just two Rodney Parade players - alongside lock Luke Charteris - called up for Wales coach Warren Gatland's 29-man autumn Test squad.
He used the patented soybeans for his main spring crop, but went to a local grain elevator and purchased so-called commodity seeds for a riskier, late-season crop.
Racers wax their boards with an old-fashioned preparation called "dope, " whose original recipe called for spermaceti--a fatty substance produced by sperm whales.
Gibbs clipped Steve Kirby straight to Key at short mid-wicket but was called for over-stepping, and Gibbs compounded the home team's misery by slamming the free delivery over the top for four.
Gates also argues that the U.S. should raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas for skilled foreign nationals so that the U.S. can retain the high-tech workers it trains at its universities.
He was just doing his job as a so-called white-hat hacker for AirTight Networks, a manufacturer of wireless intrusion protection hardware and software that was invented in India and brought to market in the U.S. AirTight's chief executive, David King, sends hackers out for unsolicited security assessments.
No doubt this is true, but the report would have benefited from a mention of the opposite problem in the U.S.: the existence of so-called Davis-Bacon requirements for most public works, which set the prevailing union wage scale no matter what the competitive market pay for quality work would be.
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In your past life I think you were -- your institution certainly was involved in that, and they called for -- they were looking at two sacred cows: mortgage interest deductions and employer-provided health care.
MSPs on the cross-party committee called for a zero-tolerance government campaign to tackle the problem.
Mrs Thatcher called for a brandy - not for Sir Geoffrey but for the poor waitress, whom she proceeded to comfort.
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