As this issue has been debated on Twitter over the last two weeks, it has been pointed out that other pharmaceutical companies have begun to engage in similar activities.
This includes posts calling for "demonstrations, marches and similar activities without a licence being obtained in advance from the competent authorities" or "disobeying the laws and regulations of the state".
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) found that traders had lied to make the bank look more secure during the financial crisis of 2008, and is now looking into allegations of similar activities at other banks.
This reminds me of a comment by the head of Nordea at the SWIFT Sibos conference a few years ago he suggested that bank executives try to figure out how many man-hours of staff time were going to external meetings for standards development, industry committees and similar activities.
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After the war, he visited Iraq, getting involved in similar technology activities in the Middle East.
Women who spent 41 to 60 hours a week driving or sitting at work were 42% more likely to require gallbladder surgery than women who spent fewer than six hours in similar sedentary activities.
Questions raised by this powerful piece of investigative journalism and other reports can presumably be resolved at last by a thorough examination of the real books of the Communist-run East and Central European banks used to advance this and similar illegal activities.
The LeapPad features measuring and sorting games that use cute cartoons to employ learning strategies similar to the activities my 5-year-old does in his progressive kindergarten classroom.
LBBW's chief executive, believes that the provision of liquidity by Landesbanken to their local Sparkassen should be regarded as similar to the activities of a central bank, and thus enjoy a zero risk weight.
The legislation would require hedge funds and other firms pursuing political intelligence to disclose their activities, similar to lobbyists.
Indeed, in and of themselves they justify a move by Yale and other universities to aggressively promote YIISA's activities and establish similar institutes.
Going forward, Disney will bring together the Haunted Mansion with all nearby attractions and activities to create a universal experience, similar to a flash mob performance.
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There are similar problems with defining the borders between acceptable and unacceptable activities.
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And while injuries may be similar to 60 years ago, there have been changes in activities like mountain biking and parapenting (paragliding).
These programs involve an unprecedented sum of federal dollars available to the private sector and are offered with a similar lack of security-minded conditionality regarding the recipient's business activities overseas.
Foursquare has the most impressive database of opinions about local attractions and activities, but some new rival apps are hot on its tail, presenting similar information in even more clever ways.
At that time, the government swooped in with relevant rules, essentially telling companies like the social networking and gaming portal Tencent that customer use of QQ coins, or similar virtual currencies, to facilitate certain transactions was starting to look a lot like traditional banking activities.
Activities performed include: office administration, hiring and placing of personnel, document preparation and similar clerical services, solicitation, collection, security and surveillance services, cleaning, and waste disposal services.
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The integrated camera records a view similar to what is seen, allowing the user to share their experience with other people, and to enjoy their activities to a greater extent because they concentrate less on holding and operating the camera.
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