There is absolutely no basis for setting that charge.
"That could be a basis for setting aside the verdict," Mr. Morgenthau said.
"So using average levels as the basis for setting safe staffing levels risks continuing that trend into the future".
At one point, she even put forward a mathematical formula that could be used as a basis for setting interest rates.
Although the British market represents less than 4% of global sales, NHS prices are used by many other countries as a basis for setting their own.
Another pharmaceutical company, Sepracor, has for years challenged the government's authority to use the "least costly alternative" as a basis for setting reimbursement rates for Xopenex, prescribed for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
If agreed, the lower public health target proposed today – 48.5% – will be used as the basis for setting binding targets over the next 15 years for pollutants such as ammonia, sulphur dioxide (SO2), particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Democrats need to refocus domestic debate around a handful of fundamental goals on which all Americans can agree -- goals that in turn become the new basis for setting fiscal priorities and tradeoffs.
The panel rejected a proposal today by its other co-leader, Cynthia Cooper, a former professional basketball player who is now chief executive of a sports marketing company, that would have made interest surveys, rather than enrollment, the basis for setting participation targets under the proportionality test.
The program provides a systematic method of achieving optimal results and can serve as a basis for set-points upon which individual plants can implement their optimal control.
FDA says it lacks a scientific basis for setting such a limit.
