But Mr Straw said the bill had "substantial support" and believed the legislation would prove effective.
Moreover, there is still a significant chance that neither torcetrapib nor Roche's JTT-705 will prove effective.
Even if all those drugs fail, other methods of raising HDL might prove effective.
Sutent, a targeted cancer pill, could become a big drug if ongoing studies in breast cancer prove effective.
And if it's a ploy, it's likely to prove effective, at least among those raised on the Brett-era Royals.
These were all minor countries, like Mauritania, where AU action could prove effective.
For additional QE to prove effective in both Britain and America, central banks must change their approach to inflation.
Top-down efforts to control official corruption have yet to prove effective, raising legal and regulatory risks for portfolio and corporate investors.
But this move is only likely to prove effective in the short-term.
Novartis and partner Schering (nyse: SHR - news - people ) are still hopeful the drug will eventually prove effective.
Pfizer's drug helped patients with stomach tumors, according to trial results reported by Forbes in February (see " Pfizer Cancer Pill Prove Effective").
Even the preferred tactic of the filmmakers stripping back the education bureaucracy, and enabling more school choice has failed to prove effective in minimizing the racial gap.
Making money from an Ariad trade was as much about calling a bottom in the stock as it was figuring out if ridaforolimus would prove effective.
Mr Hazare and his supporters say that tougher measures are required in the bill if it is to prove effective at reducing the level of corruption.
Still, there are reasons for optimism, including the fact that the virus has changed little in recent months, suggesting that a vaccine under development will prove effective, she said.
As Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute points out, this line of argument may also prove effective after the war, if the diplomatic wounds do not rapidly heal.
And a debate is raging as to whether or not to inoculate the public against smallpox or whether the vaccine would prove effective against genetically engineered strains of the virus.
Still, while this pay-as-you-weigh method may prove effective for a small commuter operation like Samoa Air, some analysts question whether the model would make business sense for large commercial carriers.
Time will tell whether these mergers will prove effective.
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Tiny biotech AtheroGenics presented new data on its main drug, a pill to combat artery inflammation, that gave some researchers hope the medicine may someday prove effective and make it to market.
Professor Fugger from the Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit said the fact the drug was already licensed would speed up the process of getting the treatment to patients should it be prove effective.
Gordon Weir, a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, believes a strategy using short-term insulin treatment a couple of weeks or months to drive blood sugar back to safer levels, may eventually prove effective and become a treatment strategy.
But if the smaller and scalable technologies prove effective, they will establish valuable niche markets for themselves not just among the TVAs of the world but also among those local utilities and less developed countries that need a clean and continuous source of power.
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On the other hand, chemical or biological arms may be used against America's allies in the region -- or even the United States, itself -- whether or not the President orders the disarming of Iraq in the only way likely to prove effective, i.e.
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They could decide to stop the trial if it has already proved more effective, if Vytorin appears more dangerous than Zocor, or if there is no hope that Vytorin will prove more effective.
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So if the goal is simply to learn, Cowen says private tutors would likely prove more effective.
Pitch letters prove particularly effective when they create a personal connection with longtime occupants.
Moreover, drug firms are testing numerous other approaches to reduce artery inflammation that may prove more effective.
In a country like India, they may also prove more effective than their counterparts in older democracies.
If so, pink elephants and bronze statues may prove less effective in getting out the dalit vote.
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