If the FCC is worried about a single carrier buying up the entirety of the spectrum in the forthcoming broadcast spectrum auction, then a simple rule forbidding such an outcome in that auction is more efficacious than a clumsy spectrum cap.

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If its as efficacious as a marketed mAb, then of course as it will also have big cost-of-goods advantages.

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Of course, the most efficacious solution to living in a water-poor region is simply to move, which is what de Villiers himself did.

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That article, Shame by Any Other Name, Lessons for Restorative Justice from the Traditions, Principles and Practices of Alcoholics Anonymous, explores the folk healing practices of A.A. Though recovery stories told to me by friends certainly informed that paper, I did an enormous amount of research about the reasons why A.A. is efficacious and the reasons it fails.

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However, this was a situation where these companies were in possession of a relatively safe drug, with a modest chance of success in being efficacious in what may be the biggest scourge that society will face.

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This is not such a radical thing to achieve since psychological interventions have been shown to be efficacious over placebo for 50 years.

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Meanwhile, Roche, at a big cancer conference in Europe, released preliminary data indicating that the TDM1 drug seemed to be as efficacious as Herceptin plus chemotherapy, with fewer side effects.

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