Word: dismissed
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...bottom line is this: If this case were brought today, Charlie would not be prosecuted, period. And anyone who says otherwise is either completely lying or does not know the truth or the facts. If the people at main justice are provided with full and accurate information, they will dismiss this case. If they are serious about what [Holder] said - in other words, that someone had to be in violation of federal and state law - then they will dismiss the case." (Read "An American Pastime: Smoking...
...cholesterol numbers are drawn from an advertisement for the statin Zocor - a drug that the authors are careful not to dismiss out of hand, since it can indeed save lives, just not as many as its makers would like you to believe. The ad openly touts the 42% figure, which is based on a study in which 111 out of 2,221 people with heart disease who used Zocor later died of a heart attack. In a control group of heart patients who used a placebo, 189 out of 2,223 died. So the fact is there were indeed...
...incidents have garnered only limited attention in state-run media, which dismiss most as the work of criminal minds or hooligans. But witnesses, who have posted videos and camera-phone shots online of burning motorcycles and farmers battling police, say the spurt of violence is a sign that the public has finally had it with corruption...
...TIME that neither he nor anyone else there would have anything to say on the matter; prosecutors have not yet said whether they'll press ahead now on the criminal-contempt charges against al-Arian. Last week Brinkema gave the defense the go-ahead to file a motion to dismiss those charges. "I think there are significant questions about what actually happened," she said. "The Justice Department is not a fishmonger...
...sales of its full medical record-keeping software to early adopters of the e-prescribing program.) But even freebies aren't enough to get doctors to change their paper-scribbling ways. Many still find old-fashioned pen and pad to be more efficient. A recent study found that doctors dismiss 90% of the alerts that automatically pop up on e-prescribing programs as not relevant. They say they find these alerts tedious: for a veteran cancer doctor prescribing anti-nausea medications to patients on chemo, for example, an e-reminder about the drugs' dosing regimen isn't so much helpful...