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...E.C.J., at that time against the Dutch government, which had refused to allow the firm to deduct interest and other costs incurred by its subsidiaries in other E.U. countries. The Dutch government estimated the decision would cost its national budget more than €2 billion if other companies followed suit, and quickly set about revamping its tax legislation to lessen the discrimination between national and E.U.-based transactions...
Nine states filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) two weeks ago, charging that its reduction requirements for mercury are grossly inadequate and will allow some of the most egregious polluters (typically older, coal-fired power plants) to avoid installing mercury controls indefinitely. I might be inclined to cut the EPA some slack if the rule-writing process didn't smell so, well, fishy. But the Government Accountability Office and the EPA inspector general have criticized the agency for ignoring scientific evidence and allowing industry lobbyists too much input...
Dressed in a blue suit and green tie, the president declared his interest in eliminating gender inequality in scientific fields, expressing the sentiment in the characteristic tone of an economist...
...harmonium players?were booked every night during the three-month wedding season prior to the holy month of Ramadan, when the partying stops. His crowning achievement came last September, when he won a famous singing contest at Kabul's Park Cinema. That day, Mirwais appeared in an immaculate white suit, handling the audience with the insouciance of a mite-sized Sinatra. His performance blew the other contestants off the stage...
Meanwhile, Klein-Becker has some wrinkles of its own to worry about. There is competition from alleged knock-off brands, which so far has prompted the firm to file 16 trademark-infringement suits in federal court. Then there's a Federal Trade Commission suit scheduled for trial in July against Klein-Becker and its parent firm, Basic Research, alleging that its ads for several weight-loss supplements and tummy-flattening gels are misleading, although a spokesperson for Klein-Becker (which denies the charges) notes that StriVectin plays no part in that case...