If the public interest is at the core of the FDA's mission, it needs to move quickly and promulgate rules that will facilitate market entry, heighten industry price competition, save consumers money, and produce better patient outcomes.
All the dust-ups have only heightened longstanding industry agitation over ratings.
Securities regulators are also giving the hedge-fund industry heightened scrutiny.
Concern over weakness in the telecommunications industry heightened yesterday as two large companies, Lucent Technologies and JDS Uniphase, prepared for additional job cuts.
India's reputation as an investment destination has taken a hit over the past year as the economy slowed, government pledges of policy overhauls stalled and corruption scandals — notably in the telecommunications industry — heightened investors' concerns.
Nevertheless, the nascent market has heightened the publishing industry's sensitivity to the potential for digital piracy, enough so that it has initiated the first criminal case under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
This risk has been heightened because private industry has set up clusters of care homes for vulnerable young people to save costs in cheaper areas – such as the deprived north-west or along the coast.
The management of process safety has become mandatory as the public concern on environmental impacts and a safety of chemical industries heightened.
The industry drew heightened interest during last decade's buyout boom.
But recently the toll its policies are taking has heightened considerably, analysts and industry executives say.
