They say it should be ratified because not doing so would hurt the U.S. chemical industry.

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We should be doing better than filing charges that would be thrown out for vagueness in every courtroom in the land.

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If, on the other hand, the credit is little more than a windfall to those firms that would be doing research anyway, Congress should just kill it.

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Or perhaps it just thought many users, like Sam Biddle at Gizmodo, would agree with it that the site should be doing everything it can to get people to use their real names.

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When doing so, however, Mr Mandelson would do well also to consider how slots should be allocated in future.

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