After earlier securing the go-ahead from the European Union, on condition the combined group sells its Dewar's and Ainslie scotch brands, this week the group won approval from the US authorities, though it too demanded concessions - the sale of Dewar's and of Bombay gin.

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But with Vonn's physical condition and determination combined with her medical treatment, Hackett believes Vonn could recover before the Olympics, a year and a week away.

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The idea of treating disease by replacing a defective gene with a working copy gained credence in 1990 with the success of the world's first gene therapy clinical tests against a rare condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).

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Signs that foreign companies might be the primary targets of the law began to emerge in November, when a merger between two brewers, America's Anheuser-Busch and Belgium's InBev, was endorsed by Chinese regulators only on the condition that the combined firm's existing interest in several domestic breweries be frozen.

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