The FDA may believe that its review processes are working just fine.

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Buycott is still working on adding new data to its back end and fine-tuning its information on corporate ownership structures.

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But Mr Tanner is the kind of journalist who goes to see for himself, and his linking of the contemporary Irish scene to the topography of Irish history, with its churches, murals and working-class streets, is a fine example of how to read the past.

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