In one sense, ebooks are books in that they deliver a certain kind of information of a certain length and scope in one place using mostly (if not entirely) the written word.
Agile development has a useful concept called a spike: a small experiment done to prove something a developer has never done before to understand the full scope of a certain type of feature.
Although the ADA is deferential to national governments when it comes to the details of implementing their antidumping laws, it does articulate certain minimum standards intended to limit the scope for abuse, such as reaching affirmative findings of dumping when no dumping has occurred or manufacturing punitively high antidumping duty rates, for example.
MEPs have called on the Commission to examine whether the scope of the Seveso Directive should be extended to include offshore oil exploration, pipelines and certain nanomaterials.
By failing at the onset of the crisis to indicate that certain limited exceptions would be made, the United States forfeited to the United Nations the task of defining the scope of this loophole, and weakened the weight of a long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the use of food as a weapon in settling disputes.