Botox, for instance, was approved in America for the treatment of ocular spasm, only for doctors to put it to more lucrative (unapproved, but not prohibited) cosmetic use.
More than most, however, it also has reason to fear the Internet's freewheeling ways with uncensored news and unapproved views.In this section Zhang on-line Hands to the plough Shouting in court Back on Indonesia's streets Floods, arsenic and a feud at the top ReprintsChinese authorities were quick to see the threat to their near-total monopoly of news and information.
Now I.S.D.S. lawsuits go after things like cancelled licenses, unapproved permits, and unwelcome regulations.
It is the latest example of a post-9/11 proliferation of intelligence operations by unapproved US government organizations.
A study by the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines reported that 62% of prescription products bought online were fake, substandard or unapproved.
Cynics suggested this could help explain a sudden crackdown by the minister of defence, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is the Labour Party chairman, on unapproved new settlements that have been sprouting up on the West Bank.
It can be slow and costly, and doctors and researchers believe quite a few unapproved drugs to be effective.
As they see it, the global information network has both good and bad bits.The bad threatens to facilitate contact and collusion among far-flung opponents of the government (see article), and to transmit subversive opinions, unwelcome information and unapproved news.
Unapproved use is at best worrying and unfair, and at worst dangerous and immoral.
Not a good week Coming off the rails ReprintsThe elections were also reintroduced with a "municipal filter" that keeps truly threatening (or merely unapproved) challengers off the ballot.
According to Keith Krach of Ariba, a leading B2B-software vendor, online procurement reduces transaction costs and paperwork, provides economies of scale through consolidated purchasing and reduces the level of unapproved "maverick" purchasing.
