Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said in a news release that without the change, New York would have had to pay the GED test maker twice as much or limit the number of test takers because state law bars residents from being charged to take the equivalency exam.
On the other hand, some on Wall Street worry that availability of a gene test to predict response might limit the market for Iressa and Tarceva to only a small minority of lung cancer patients whose tumors have the gene mutations.
It's a good test and almost right on the limit of being too firm.
At Tuesday's meeting, the safety board also championed laws allowing police to confiscate a motorist's license at the time of arrest if the driver exceeds a BAC limit, or refuses to take the BAC test.
One early test will be a government proposal to limit electoral spending, blocked by the opposition.
That presidency is enough to test any country's skills to the limit even those of a big one such as Germany, which is currently sitting not too comfortably in the chair.
"Personally, I think that having some threshold would give some more uniformity to the test, but pragmatically we don't want to limit the sensitivity of tests, " said Prof David Cowan from King's College London, who is in charge of anti-doping at next summer's London Olympic Games.
After several coordination tests, he was given a breathalyzer test that registered 0.139, well above the legal limit of 0.08 for a driving under the influence charge, the report said.
It helps that the chancellor forgot to include in his fiscal tests an upper limit on taxes as a proportion of national income the most important test of all so that revenue shortfalls, if the economy fails to grow as strongly as he expects, can be made up with further rises in taxes.
The report also indicated he was given a breathalyzer test and blew a .161 and .158 which is twice the legal limit of .08.
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That is 400 times the accepted limit in Holland, say scientists at a Dutch laboratory, the nearest facility that could test for dioxins and related chemicals. (The tainted fat was also found to contain 781 parts per trillion of dioxin - 1, 500 times higher than the Dutch safe level.) That was then.
But a test carried out a police station two hours after the crash gave a reading just below the legal limit and Dhesi was not charged with drink-driving.
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The Environment Agency has previously conducted a test measuring the size of wood chip particles in the air, which came back well within the UK limit.
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