Approval lagged in Costa Rica because of strong opposition from a wide range of civil society organizations and trade unions.
Using historical data from the Roper Center's polling archives, Warshaw found that the American Health Care Act's average approval numbers lagged significantly behind polling on everything from Bill Clinton's failed 1993 attempt at health care reform to the 2008 bank bailout.
The company's executives are not predicting how much an approval for jet lag would add to Nuvigil sales.
For Cephalon, a company in Frazer, Pa., whose business tactics have attracted federal attention, the approval for jet lag is part of a plan to extend patent protection for its core franchise in stay-awake drugs.
Sleeping pills, for example, are approved to treat insomnia, whatever the cause, so there has been no need to seek a specific approval for jet lag, said Thomas Roth, director of the sleep disorders and research center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a consultant to Cephalon.
For they consistently show his approval ratings badly lagging behind those of David Cameron, while focus groups persistently describe Miliband in unflattering terms such as "weird" and "geeky".
Because they operate in real time, without political approval or implementation lags, they are a very effective way to make fiscal policy stabilizing.
Neither total (ρ = 0.31; P = 0.42) nor industry funding (ρ = 0.48; P = 0.19) was correlated with total approvals over a lag period of eight years.
This investment proved detrimental to the company when Provenge approval and adoption lagged and the company was left with expensive but underutilized production facilities.
"We have never stopped working on this project, despite the lag in approval," Koolhaas said as he inspected a model that detailed a possible landscape arrangement.
