The Food and Drug Administration, looking at the same study data on Thursday, took a less forceful step and asked Abbott Laboratories, the maker of Meridia, to put a stronger warning on its label.
The Food and Drug Administration took a less forceful step and instead requested that Abbott state on the drug's label that Meridia should not be used in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease.
The ban is the most forceful step yet in a three-year effort in Congress to curb abuses in the use of earmarks, which allow individual lawmakers to award financing for pet projects to groups and businesses, many of them campaign donors.
But in taking the forceful step of holding up a statute even before it was put into practice, Judge Bolton previewed her opinions on the case, indicating that the federal government was likely to win in the end on the main points.
Their ace confirmed his status as the game's best pitcher and the Dodgers took a forceful first step in making new history.
It also could take the more forceful step of expanding its investment portfolio.
A bipartisan advisory group plans to deliver a report to Congress today that is sharply critical of China's trade practices and endorses sanctions including a tariff on imports unless Beijing takes forceful steps to allow its currency to move in line with market forces.
Indeed, Moscow acted like a pre-1914 great power, taking limited forceful steps to assert its interests and secure its borders.
The news was a blow to Peter Löscher, Siemens's boss, who has begun a big clean-up at the company following a bribery scandal.The dragon catches a coldChina's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said his government would take "forceful" steps to dampen inflation, which is running well above official targets.
And Ms. Buglisi devised forceful steps for three couples: Elizabeth Roxas and Kevin Predmore, Christine Dakin and Stephen Pier, and Miki Orihara and Mr. Foreman.
The ensuing bloody year pushed the White House as well as the Congress to take more forceful steps toward emancipation.
