Conservative health spokesman Murdo Fraser's amendment, which called for the Scottish government to remove minimum pricing of alcohol from the bill, was carrried.

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She called for a social strategy - to look at minimum pricing and licensing controls on home delivery alcohol services - as well as criminal justice controls, such as making breathalysers compulsory.

BBC: Oral questions

Although Stribild costs 33 percent more than the list price for Atripla, RW Baird analyst Thomas Russo called the pricing appropriate, noting the cost is similar to other, less convenient, multi-tablet HIV regimens.

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Even though it spits out percentages to several decimal points, the capital-asset pricing model, as the conceptual framework for calculating the rates is called, is controversial in itself.

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This week, the cost of that extreme pricing was called into question when a building in Bangladesh collapsed that housed a manufacturer of clothing for Joe Fresh, in what is certainly the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry.

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Mr. Shammo said Verizon's 4G network, which is based on technology called Long-Term Evolution, can deliver between 1 and 12 megabits per second of data, allowing for tiered pricing structure similar to home wired Internet service.

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This was a demonstration of a suite of open and extensible software applications for managing energy demand and time-of-use pricing by a firm in Boulder, Colorado, called Tendril.

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