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Device approval exposes political pressure on FDA
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has taken the unprecedented step of acknowledging that it buckled to "extreme" pressure from Capitol Hill in its approval of a knee repair device last year. While FDA officials call ...
Tax lobbying provides 22,000 percent return to multinational firms, KU researchers find
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Three professors at the University of Kansas have found that a one-time tax break allowed multinational corporations to receive a 22,000 percent average return on lobbying expenditures.
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Google's 3Q lobbying costs eclipse $1 million
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s quarterly lobbying expenses eclipsed $1 million for the first time during the summer as the company tried to build on its dominance of Internet search and expand into other markets.
Banks and bailouts: Playing politics?
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Banks with strong political connections were more likely to receive bailout money from the government—and more of it—in the past year than those with weaker ties, say University of Michigan researchers.
Online poker advocates lobby Congress to lift federal ban
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Poker players are gambling on Congress seeing things their way.
New York trans fat ban expected to pass
Nov 30, 2006 |
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New York restaurants are lobbying the city council in hopes of overriding a ban on trans fats that is expected to pass the board of health.
Professional lobbyists: Pragmatic operatives or just another partisan resource?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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The thousands of professional lobbyists working in Washington, DC on issues tend to be professional partisans who mobilize resources for one preferred political party exclusively. So finds a new study which counters the common ...
AMA votes to seek repeal of 'don't ask,don't tell'
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.
STDs found in Brooklyn canal
Oct 04, 2007 |
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A New York City College of Technology biologist released a report Thursday finding the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn tested positive for gonorrhea contamination.
Internet-nurturing policies questioned
Jun 01, 2006 |
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While some would argue that the advent of the Internet has as great, if not a greater, impact as the Industrial Revolution on the global economy and society at large, there is growing concern that the World Wide Web's freedom ...
Sports drinks face junk food label
Sep 26, 2007 |
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Public health advocates are lobbying for limits on the availability of sports drinks such as Gatorade and Powerade in high school vending machines.
US Chamber of Commerce releases questionable survey results
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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In an article from a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies the results of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Liability Survey for recent years are analyzed. The annual Chamber of Commerce surveys (dating back t ...
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