An estimated 30, 000 Americans, up from 2, 000 in the mid-1990s, are shooting up in the hope of fending off the aging process, according to the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, a professional society of doctors.
This case was relatively early in the history of ERISA. You have to wonder whether, in the heat of fending off a takeover attempt, it even crossed the mind of Mr. Bierwirth and the other trustees that using the pension assets for that purpose was even ethically dubious, much less something that opened them to personal liability.
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While fending off oversight of itself, New Life has had problems overseeing how its products are sold.
Because new political and philosophical insights showed that all men were equal and that they were capable of fending for themselves.
Mr Abbott had himself been fending off charges of sexism and misogyny.
The merged company did a reasonable job of fending off competitors, but did so by engaging in a price war that clobbered profitability.
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"There've been a lot of rhetorical efforts to tighten regulation, but Fannie and Freddie have both done a pretty deft job of fending that off, " Leach says.
Facing the threat of yet more regulations by Congress last year, the industry adopted its own "Airline Customer Service Commitment" as a way of fending off the politicians.
Charles Schwab ( SCHW - news - people ) is fending off dozens of class actions, and an SEC warning about possible civil action, related to alleged misrepresentation of its YieldPlus short-term bond funds.
Mr Sigai, 37, managed to escape with cuts to his back and hand, as pictured in the Daily Mail, by poking the creature in the eyes - which experts agree offers the only possible chance of fending off such an assault.
Since then, Mr. Curry and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have been fending off renewed doubts about the ability of regulators to keep up with the risk taking of the nation's biggest, most complex financial firms.
Second, if the appeals court ultimately decides that the investors' case is without merit, companies arguably won't have to tie up extra funds fending off an onslaught of lawsuits--which could boost investor confidence.
These workers were successfully fending off the vast majority of the millions of attacks aimed at military networks every day, he added.
Proponents spent Monday evening fending off attempts from both sides of the aisle to expand, shrink or revise the tax cuts.
Far from limiting its war effort to fending off the encircling allied powers of Russia, France and Britain, German diplomats and soldiers tried to foment popular anti-colonial revolution in India and Egypt, to create a widespread Islamic jihad against the colonial rulers, to disrupt the allies' global communications.
What will it take to get the entire food industry to hear this message, instead of spending time and resources fending off its attackers?
Still, I have spent a good portion of the subsequent 28 years fending off efforts by Hollywood and the music industry to restrict, tax or ban perfectly safe and useful technology.
Their successes were huge -- involving such feats as fighting back against salacious rumors of affairs and charges of buying an election, fending off a huge battle against big labor and riding the Tea Party Express to victory.
Rogers has his hands full fending off environmentalists like Stephen A. Smith of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, an Asheville, N.
And, of course, both papers are fending off competition from the Internet, which is stealing both readers and ad revenue across the country.
Internal and external threats reach new levels of sophistication every day, and a deeper level of insight into critical systems is key to fending off threats.
The plot is no more than a thread: Barnabas must revive the Collins fortune whilst fending off the attentions, both amorous and savage, of a sorceress named Angelique (Eva Green).
Oishi quickly won the ready-to-drink tea market, surpassing genuine Japanese brands such as Kirin and Pokka, and fending off foreign and local newcomers that also conveyed messages of a clean, green Japanese lifestyle.
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But while Mr Jaitley was fending off the US, in the UK the issue of both outsourcing and of fast-tracked incoming staff - a hot issue among some local IT workers - was returning to the fore.
Much of Google's spending on lobbying is aimed at fending off antitrust allegations, but it has also given the company a major voice on piracy issues.
Seventeen months into her tenure, this scion of a powerful French family has shown herself adept at fending off outside pressure, at the same time as remoulding a holding group into something more streamlined.
Despite the cachet of the red soles, Louboutin has not been particularly aggressive in fending off imitators.
It delves a little deeper into the whole Google-Twitter-Facebook smackdown wherein Google finds itself fending off allegations that it has gamed its vaunted organic search results in favor of its own socially generated content.
Apart from fending off interlopers from the Internet, Japanese publishers see e-books as a way of slashing the costs of production and distribution, which currently account for more than 75% of the total.
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