Preliminary results were encouraging, and even showed a benefit on reducing deaths in one dose--although experts warn to view that as preliminary until a larger study is done.
Under FBI guidelines, any suspicious activity could have prompted a preliminary or even a full investigation.
The judge said a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing are scheduled for 3 p.m.
However, a preliminary report by a panel of nuclear experts says fully decommissioning the power station could take 30 years.
Jim Bullock, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, said that al-Jaafari's commission was to provide a preliminary report in a week and a final report in two weeks.
Officials at the National Weather Service gave a preliminary EF2 rating to a tornado that struck downtown Mobile on Christmas Day.
The decision to start a preliminary criminal investigation follows a formal complaint by the prince and Catherine, with aides saying they were looking for proceedings against the magazine and the photographer who took the pictures.
The report, Achieving and Sustaining Earth Observations: A Preliminary Plan Based on a Strategic Assessment by the U.S. Group on Earth Observations, was requested by Congress in the 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 111-117).
President Bush predicted that those who want to pull out of Iraq will point to the unsatisfactory report card, but he reiterated that this was a preliminary report and that a more comprehensive assessment would come in mid-September.
In every interview you reach a point when you have to give a preliminary, short answer to a question.
He granted dissident investors a preliminary injunction against Apple pending a full trial.
At a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, a judge said they should go on trial charged with resisting arrest, looting and carrying explosive materials.
The Iraqi cabinet approved a preliminary agreement that will create a joint venture between the state-run South Oil Company and Royal Dutch Shell to develop natural-gas resources in the Basra region.
The drug, called anacetrapib, showed a remarkable ability to prevent the need for stent operations and bypass surgery in a preliminary study presented today at a big meeting of cardiologists in Chicago.
Why did Bonn consistently refuse until July 1988 to act on evidence available to it as early as July 1985 that warranted at least a preliminary investigation of charges of a German connection to the Rabta plant?
This month the Census Bureau published a preliminary estimate of poverty, using a new definition.
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The plan has raised concerns since a preliminary list of facilities was released a month ago.
Ono, her son Sean Ono Lennon, and Julian Lennon - Lennon's son from his first marriage - had sought a preliminary injunction before the film gets a wider release.
According to the Foreign Office they'd already reached a preliminary view that refurbishment was not a violation of the cease-fire in Western Sahara in 1998, after contacts with the UN mission Minurso "in the region".
Preliminary work a few years ago, by Robin Baker and Mark Bellis of Manchester University in England, suggests that as many as 10% of children may not have been fathered by the man who believes he is the father.
Many of the freshmen Republicans in the House who are driving the no vote have suggested that this is only a preliminary vote, and that going a few weeks before there is a final vote will just lead to the spending cuts they seek.
He gave a preliminary approval to the settlement and set a hearing for May 2 to consider final approval of it.
Such a preliminary hearing would be presided over by a federal judge.
Its findings repeated concerns it voiced in a preliminary report in July, which stated a takeover by either firm would "substantially lessen competition".
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We can tell you that the information included in the 2005 article was based upon a preliminary investigation we undertook on behalf of a pension sponsor, assisted by an health insurance industry insider familiar with law enforcement subpoenas received by health insurers at that time.
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In February 2011, the BLNR issued a preliminary decision conditioned on the successful conclusion of a contested case.
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The company has asked the US District Court in San Jose, California, for a preliminary injunction on the Samsung products, while a permanent injunction is sought.
To be fair, CBO is clear that this is a preliminary estimate that does not take into account a host of changes in the economy, technical matters, and the effects of the implementation to date.
It proposes a system of preliminary hearings in which a judge could throw out spurious cases, and would, crucially, have the power to cap costs, so that one side or the other couldn't run up huge bills, with the implicit threat of financial ruin if costs were awarded against the other.
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