As a result, the federal government can apply the revenues collected from Social Security payroll taxes, and the income taxes collected on benefits collected from higher-income individuals, to any government liability.
Even with credible government guarantees on liability and patents, and with government and universities between them doing the necessary basic research, would big pharma seek to develop and make these drugs?
It is a means of finance -- the government's liability is the buyer's asset.
You have to do all that to a standard of accuracy that will satisfy government regulators and medical liability lawyers when something goes wrong.
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This instrument must involve some joint liability for government debts.
Government regulation and legal liability could soon become bigger obstacles to the spread of autonomous vehicles than the technical challenges of making the systems reliable and cheap enough for mass-market vehicles.
The idea of the new Brownfields law was this: To encourage redevelopment of the 450, 000 brownfield sites that would otherwise lie fallow, the government needed to provide liability protection to developers who took certain reasonable steps before and after buying a property.
The public debt is a liability for the government but it is an asset for the private sector.
The case requires the high court to determine whether the motor vehicle safety standards established by the federal government effectively preempt a products liability claim under state tort law.
And, for the Saudi government, the bases have become a liability as it slowly responds to the discontent.
Communities and Local Government Minister Shahid Malik said issues of liability and maintenance around smoke alarms in rented properties were complex.
Companies that potentially face civil or criminal liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have hired a large cast of outside legal help, including former high-level government attorneys and a top product-liability lawyer.
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Another issue is whether government will offer the industry a cap on liability in case of accidents.
Yes, solar-panel-maker Solyndra recently went belly up, leaving 1, 100 people out of work and the federal government with a half-billion-dollar liability.
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There is no sign that the American government will put a cap on auditors' liability, but the profession will soon start lobbying for one.
And on ERR there were four government defeats - including one which reinstated civil liability in breaches of duty of health and safety regulations.
It could be troubling if the government uses Enron to increase the scope of criminal liability for executives, Podgor said.
They have denied liability and say advice given by the government and the World Health Organisation suggests no specific link between flying and DVT.
And Texaco, before it was purchased by Chevron, thought it had extinguished its liability by performing a cleanup that the government approved with a blanket release in 1998.
It said it had fully co-operated with Moorhead ahead of its changeover but felt unable to accept the extra liability as it would no longer receive government funding for the school.
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The one downside is that the fund is fairly heavily weighted towards Spain with its position in Gamesa, which could potentially be a liability as the cash-strapped Spanish government is slashing renewable-energy subsidiaries.
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Leader of the opposition Andrew RT Davies asked the first minister what liability had been placed on the Welsh government via match funding or financial support in order to allow the opportunity to "flow into Wales".
Given that in most recent big bank bailouts, non-deposit creditors have been made whole, a huge potential liability for the U.S. government on top of its exposure to deposits insured by the thinly-capitalized Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Government could also shift regulatory burdens, and even malpractice liability, from the doctors to the organization.
The Scottish Government has said the Ministry of Defence had historically accepted liability in such cases and expected that to continue.
But the government recently revealed it had underestimated the EQC's liability.
James Dalton, head of motor and liability at the Association of British Insurers, welcomed government action over what he called "the UK's whiplash epidemic".
But the government has rejected her report, saying the companies involved should bear liability.
For years, the Merkel government has dragged its feet on similarly proscribing EIH, citing its potential financial liability to investors that could be disadvantaged if the bank were shuttered.
Indeed, the Australian government said last year that it would replace the principle of joint and several liability for auditors with that of proportionate liability, and also allow auditors to incorporate.
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