As of 1998, at least 26 states had passed laws explicitly protecting employers who give unfavorable references from defamation lawsuits.
Legislatures are also starting to crack down, mandating fingerprint and criminal record checks of teachers and protecting employers who give unfavorable references from lawsuits.
The agent panned the yarn from a law-enforcement perspective: This story is a satire on the government's use of informants, and although it is fantasy and fiction, it does cast unfavorable references on the use of informants.
Taken together favorable and unfavorable changes in the reference variables across time were reflected by improvement and deterioration of the OIDP frequency scores.
Considering the carriers of one or less unfavorable allele as the reference group, the carriers of two to five alleles tended to have a relatively higher risk of cerebral infarction (1.61 [0.93–2.81], P = 0.092) and the carriers of six or more alleles had a significantly increased risk (2.60 [1.30–5.18], P = 0.007) (Fig. 2).
Compared with the reference (group 1 without any unfavorable genotypes), the HRs for patients with one (group 2) and two (group 3) unfavorable genotypes were 1.41 (95% CI, 1.10 1.82; P = 0.007) and 2.09 (95% CI, 1.46 2.97, P < 0.001), respectively.
This combination clearly reduced unfavorable side reactions and product degradation during reference compound synthesis.
Most cleistogamous species have both closed and open flowers [ 90- 92], and it has been suggested that the closed ones provide a cheap supply of seeds and reproductive assurance under unfavorable conditions (see [ 90] and references therein).
For older women, aged 35 years or more, the risk of unfavorable outcome was significantly higher than in the reference population.
Multivariate trend analyses showed significantly increased hazard ratios (HR) for each additional marker showing unfavorable expression, as compared to the "all favorable" reference group.
