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That will depend on the resolution of the import-tariff dispute with the Indian government. In July an E.U. panel found the additional duty on imported wines and spirits a "blatant violation" of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, and with the U.S. also complaining, the WTO has launched its own investigation. A ruling may be more than a year away, but things may move more quickly now that Mallya too is an importer. The self-styled "King of Good Times" is a Member of Parliament as well...
...this is to confuse the bacteria, hitting them with not just one natural toxin but two. At Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Mass., scientists are developing a new class of antibiotics that targets a pair of enzymes the microbes depend on to copy their genes and reproduce. Adapting in two directions at once slows down the bacteria enough to give the drug time to work. "Mathematically, it becomes much harder for the bacteria to develop resistance to different targets at the same time," says Dr. John Alam, the company's chief medical officer...
...That leads to arrangements that are not always dependable. “We’ve had to depend on the good will of faculty from other departments to borrow professors,” says Divinity School Dean William A. Graham...
...written off," said Sir Digby Jones, former chief of the Confederation of British Industry. Skeptics suggest that the language used to describe such jobs will change when the conditions and prospects associated with those jobs change. But whether the Oxford English Dictionary changes its definition of McJob may depend on the outcome of this summer's word...
...What it tells you is that we can never let up because government policies change,” Stetson says. “We can’t depend on the vagaries of Congressional decisions” for funding, he says...