The role of the FDA and the nature of the American regulatory process are at a crossroad and the stakes are high.

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The story talks about how the industry and IT are at a crossroad similar to the one 25 years ago with the transformation from traditional mainframes and terminals to the new class of end-user devices in the Personal Computer.

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O'HARA: Indeed, the report itself describes China as facing a strategic crossroad, and the report acknowledges that the United States does not know what kind of choices China's leaders will make as the country grows in power and influence.

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Now, the Sabres reach another crossroad regarding whether to keep Miller and Vanek.

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And at the very first CBC dinner, the great actor and activist, Ossie Davis, told the audience America was at a crossroad.

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"This latest Gorbachev plea for substantial American taxpayer credit guarantees should be viewed by the world as a revealing and critical test of the Bush Administration's policy toward the fragmenting Soviet Union at an historic crossroad, " said Roger W. Robinson, Jr.

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As a result, liberalism, as well as the United States, finds itself at a historic crossroad.

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In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.

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