Progress of Rule Reviews Difficult to Track
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Three years ago, the regulatory overseers at the new Bush administration's    Office of Management and Budget  invited suggestions on which federal rules needed some work -- a tuneup, elimination, or maybe a new rule altogether. The effort was directed by Congress, which wanted the OMB to report to it annually on the costs and benefits of regulation and send along an inventory of ineffective or inefficient rules that should be reformed or killed.
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A wave of business scandals in the past few years has focused much more attention on how companies are run, but even many investor watchdogs don't exactly agree on how to assess corporate governance.
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Looking for mistakes or fraud can take close examination.
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In the digital age, there are few black-and-white rules. Rather, we live in an era of gray when it comes to technology and the law.  A federal case that was recently dismissed before it reached trial is the latest example.
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Judges trying to keep up with scientific advancements say they face difficult decisions in determining what kinds of evidence to allow into courtrooms. As gatekeepers over what testimony is heard by a jury, judges must decide which experts are relevant &#151; and which are truly experts.
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While an FDA committee reviewing Procter &amp; Gamble&#39;s testosterone patch for women didn&#39;t say no last week, it clearly said, &quot;Slow.
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Taking a look at how drug approval rates have fared under different FDA commissioners.
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It's tough to get far nowadays handicapping the next credit-policy move by the Federal Reserve.
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Reviewing some unreviewed products before the dust on their boxes gets too thick.
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While increased competition looms, shareholder update looks to the past.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 30  /PRNewswire/ -- Measuring brands, trends and issues marketers care about in blogs and other social media is difficult because there is no standard in assessing readership and influence.
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Polishing memorandum of understanding
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US regulators have yet to complete an advanced system for fully analyzing crash data to identify defects four years after the deadly Firestone tire debacle prompted an overhaul of federal auto safety oversight, a government watchdog
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 19--If you haven't been faithfully checking out the Consumer Action blog (http:// blogs. mercurynews. com/ consumer   actionline), here are some of the things you missed.
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A move to devise privacy policies for ICANN that might shield information on people who register domains has stalled for now, continuing a long-running stalemate  on reforms to the way the WHOIS database is handled.
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Academic journals control whose research gets published and influence who wins research funding and contracts. Frustrated by the delays and power in the traditional peer-review system, some scientists are turning to an online open review system.
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Under the Free Software Foundation's previous roadmap, a so-called "last call" draft of the third GPL revision was due by now, with final release set for March. However, recent comments in the tech press indicate that is no longer the case.