The new regulations were intended to go into effect in June 2012, but the FDA announced today that it will push back enforcement of the rules until mid-December 2012.

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Researchers are now considering whether to push ahead towards clinical trials to find if the substance has a similar effect in humans.

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The overall effect is to push up the real growth of total public expenditure in 2000-01 from the 5% expected in the budget to almost 7%.

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All this murk is having an effect on the EU's ability to push ahead with closer cooperation in justice and home affairs.

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One effect of the euro-area crisis was to push the euro down against the dollar in the early months of this year helping German firms but harming American exporters.

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For years, conservatives have argued such unions have an outsize influence in picking the elected officials who are, in effect, their bosses, putting them in a strong position to push for more jobs, and thus more political clout.

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The effect of this was to push up the performance of small caps relative to that of large caps in the first weeks of the year.

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