But recently an independent committee monitoring Pfizer's two big studies of the drug, know known as PF-3512676, took a scheduled look at the data.
The companies will join forces to develop and commercialize ertugliflozin (PF-04971729), an oral sodium glucose cotransporter (SGLT2) inhibitor for type 2 diabetes which is about to begin phase 3 studies.
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Further south, Zimbabwe did not have Kenya's queues but a referendum on a new constitution passed off with overwhelming support from all parties - including President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF - a constitution that will now limit presidential rule to two five-year terms amongst other nuggets of democratic expression.
If Mr Tsvangirai wins - and I am not suggesting that is either likely or certain - and if Zanu-PF claims he has done so because of foreign support, then Zanu-PF's justice minister will not accept the result.
The extension applies to affected organizations filing Forms 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, or 1120-POL. Form 990-N filers will not be affected.
On Tuesday, a Zanu-PF official was injured when his house in north-eastern Zimbabwe was attacked with petrol bombs.
ZANU-PF receives state funds and the adulation of the state-owned media.
As in Kenya, the two leading presidential candidates - Zanu-PF's President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC - finally came together in early 2009 to form a unity government that has helped bring stability to the country.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change, led by Tsvangirai, have failed to implement the September 15 power-sharing deal because they cannot agree on who should control key ministries.
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Bright Matonga, a spokesman for the ruling ZANU-PF, said all parties agreed to the decision.
President Mugabe has allocated the main ministries, including defence, home, foreign affairs, and justice to Zanu-PF.
That, he believes, would alienate those in ZANU-PF whom he hopes to win over.
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ZANU-PF, the party that has ruled the country since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.
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ZANU-PF would have to stuff ballot boxes, a tactic it has been wary of, so far.
President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, ZANU-PF, did well in the rural areas, especially in the north.
Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party was also accused of unleashing violence against MDC supporters, an allegation it denied.
Mr Mugabe's mortality terrifies the security bosses and hardliners in his Zanu-PF party.
Voters are expected to endorse the constitution, negotiated by Zanu-PF and the MDC.
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ZANU-PF handed out government development money and an extra 4, 000 voters were moved to the constituency before the poll.
ZANU-PF officials, and promise to let the party use their vehicles for campaigning.
ZANU-PF party in the rural areas where nearly 70% of the population lives.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and Tsvangirai's MDC party have been negotiating over the distribution of cabinet posts in a unity government.
ZANU-PF party has watched its popularity eroding, it has tried to buy back support at the expense of the economy.
ZANU-PF's own electoral agents endorsed the counts in polling stations, it is disputing results in 22 of the 210 parliamentary constituencies.
The Zanu-PF campaign highlighted the irreversibility of the land reform programme, which saw some 4, 500 farms seized from mainly white commercial farmers.
Zanu-PF ministers may not have been paying much attention to the lyrics.
Mugabe's Zanu-PF party alleges that the opposition is engaged in election tampering.
The power-sharing deal signed three months ago stipulated that ZANU-PF would have 15 ministers in the council and the MDC would have 13.
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Donors have promised to help finance a recovery plan but they are unlikely to release funds if a Zanu-PF minister is in charge.
Mr Mugabe has accepted the land ownership plan in principle, but says the deal will have to be approved by cabinet and his ruling Zanu-PF party.
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