One of Barack Obama's first acts as president was lifting the U.S. restrictions on medical research using embryonic stem cells.

巴拉克·奥巴马宣誓就职后施行的第一批政策中，加强对胚胎干细胞医疗研究的限制赫然在列。

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One ofBarack Obama's first acts as president was lifting the U.S. restrictions onmedical research using embryonic stem cells.

奥巴马上任伊始，就提高了美国对使用胚胎干细胞进行医学研究的限制。

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The agency have sweeping powers to write and enforce new rules (on top of the 26 acts that, according to CreditSights, a research firm, will come under its auspices) and to levy fines.

CFPB拥有广泛的权力，可以编写并执行新的法规（据美国研究公司CreditSights说，紧接着还有26部法案将在CFPB指导下生效），还可以征收罚款。

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But the vice president said the studies had not made "the next connection" - that game playing actually led to violent acts - and concluded that more research was needed.

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That strikes me as disingenuous, since the media relations department acts upon information provided by the departments conducting the research.

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But IV soon morphed into a multipronged, first-of-its-kind firm: It buys and licenses patents, sues infringers, acts as a venture capitalist for inventors and does in-house scientific research.

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