Sentences with phrase «illegal marketing of»

On Tuesday, the federal government came to a settlement of $ 520 million with AstraZeneca, in a resolution of claims involving illegal marketing of the company's antipsychotic drug Seroquel.

The ongoing series of HuffPo articles on Johnson & Johnson and its blatantly illegal marketing of off - label use of its blockbuster drug is a prime example.

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Google chose to leave China entirely in 2010 because of that country's censorship of its search results, although it is planning to return because the market is so huge, and YouTube is routinely taken offline in Turkey because it hosts content that is deemed to be illegal.

For most of the stock market's history, buybacks were actually illegal — considered to be insider trading — the thought being that if you ran the company, you would have nonpublic information to know when to buy shares.

(In the fragmented, state - regulated cannabis market, it is illegal for companies to ship marijuana products out of state.

Market activities that «escape measurement» because of their «hidden, illegal or informal nature» are not just unmeasured, but untaxed.

Statistics Canada recently released this report on the underground economy in Canada — essentially an attempt to gauge the extent of «market - based economic activities, whether legal or illegal, that escape measurement because of their hidden, illegal or informal nature.»

Dig Deeper: Medical Marijuana Retailing How to Open a Medical Marijuana Dispensary: The Challenges of the Trade «The largest challenge that medical cannabis faces is that it is still federally illegal in the eyes of the federal government,» says Kris Lotikiar, a co-author of the Medical Marijuna Markets report.

Freeman said the risk of money laundering «is far greater in the vast, unregulated, illegal sports betting market than in the highly regulated, legal gaming industry.

On Tuesday, TINA.org released the results of its investigation, claiming that Goop markets some of its own products (and promotes third - party products) using «deceptive,» «illegal» health - related claims that aren't backed up by solid scientific evidence.

This digital - currency trading platform provided an online black market for money laundering of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking and other nefarious offerings.

The war on drugs is an expensive battle because a great number of resources go into catching those who buy or sell illegal drugs on the black market, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail.

«After being AWOL and failing to stop Wells Fargo's decade - long illegal conduct, the President of the San Francisco Fed should not be promoted to be president of the most important regional office in the entire Federal Reserve System,» Better Markets President Dennis Kelleher said in a statement.

Congress has made it illegal for Americans to shop at foreign pharmacies for cheaper versions of same drugs sold in U.S., and it hasn't appropriated the Food and Drug Administration enough funds to get competing versions of lifesaving drugs to market quickly.

Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal and therefore can be challenged in court, the Supreme Court said Monday...

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

Lawyers for Boeing present the dispute as a classic case of illegal subsidies and dumping, or selling products at below - market prices in foreign countries.

«Passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20 - year - old to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self - defense rifle on the market punishes law - abiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals,» NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement this week.

The Finance Minister of India, Mr Arun Jaitley, as the experts believe, just took on the Cryptocurrency market in India by a storm as he insinuated that legislation are in the works that would make the cryptocurrencies illegal in India.

The takedown of three major Dark Web markets by law enforcement officials over the summer has driven many vendors of illegal products to set up their own shops that, in many cases, are not properly configured and are leaking the underlying server's IP address.

And as it inches closer to mainstream adoption, the more radical and sometimes illegal uses (such as gambling and ransomware payments) will likely give way market share to uses that have broad appeal (such as machine payments and store of value).

Order requiring an Orlando, Fla., seller and distributor, of cosmetics and cosmetic distributorships, among other things to cease using its openended, multilevel marketing plan; engaging in illegal price fixing and price discrimination and imposing selling and purchasing restrictions on its distributors; and to cease making exaggerated earnings claims and other misrepresentations in an effort to recruit distributors.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Darknet markets are said to bring in tens of millions of dollars of revenue per month from those who wish to buy and sell mostly illegal items on the Internet, and those numbers could improve as new technologies improve the shopping experience.

That is a gold market free of all manipulators both quasi-legal and illegal.

«While you are going to see a big shift from the illegal (cannabis) market to the legal market, you're also going to have a lot of alcohol consumers who don't consider cannabis, because it's illegal, moving over to consuming cannabis, especially with the development of closer alternatives such as infused beverages.»

While the bullish case for gold is directly contrary to the interests of the financial establishment generally, it is of extreme interest and benefit to the subset of the establishment that has made more than $ 1,000,000,000,000.00 in illegal profits over the past forty years by rigging the gold market, and that wishes to steal as much additional money as they can get away with.

Its legal and illegal cannabis market did around $ 8 billion in sales in 2016 - with 75 % of that from illegal sales.

«Streami's main competitors, as of now, are traditional remittance service providers in general and illegal money transmitters that are estimated to take up significant Korea - outbound remittances market share.»

That said, nobody envisaged that China would eliminate 140 million mt / year of «illegal» steel capacity that the market didn't really know about.

Airbus used its legacy of illegal subsidies — going back more than 45 years and counting — to unfairly gain more than 50 percent of the global aircraft market.

Just as abortion, gay rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy, illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the candidate's religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder of others, the subjugating of women, and the establishment of it's own set of laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would do so...).

Americans consume 60 percent of the world's illegal drugs — too profitable a market for dealers to ignore.

Pink Himalayan salt is flooding the western markets as it is illegal to sell it where it is mined because of the lack of Iodine.

lewa and Benz r out, griezmann, lukaku, auba and dybala r young and will have d cash pits of Europe chasing them... which means astronomical transfer fees / wage (we'll definitely lose in d bidding war)... huguain is a viable option but with a transfer fee of 55m and 200k wages for a 29 year old????... BONKERS!!!!! I don't know about u but I feel we shld do everytin legal / illegal to get vardy... by 2 - 3 years time, others strikers will have surfaced but for now there's a limited pool and d richest club r d sharks... i would like any of d young strikers but it doesn't mean we shld pay 40m more than their market value like its an auction!!!!

This isn't about privileged women saying «breast is best» (a woman's choice how to feed her child is her own)-- it is about misleading, unethical, and in some cases illegal marketing practices, illegally sourcing milk from a horrible dictator, and the use of slave labor.

I live in Australia, so I've got the advantage of state provided healthcare as well - formula marketing is illegal here though.

Are you tired of reporting illegal formula marketing in the UK and seeing no prosecutions brought against the law breakers by the responsible authorities?

Update 13 February 2015: We had reported that Tesco promised a shake up of its marketing practices after being challenged over illegal formula promotion in its stores.

Many of the China cheapies that are being sold in the cloth diaper market today are illegal.

These include the use of child labour, sourcing chocolate from cacao farms which use slave labour, stealing rural water resources in the United States, marketing formula with questionable and sometimes outright illegal claims, etc etc..

The benefits of such a system would be to «dry up illegal black markets,» reduce the burden on law enforcement and use the cannabis tax to finance drug prevention, education and rehabilitation.

To remove the incentives for people to engage in illegal lottery, the 7.5 % income tax on the commission of lotto marketing companies will be abolished and the 5 % withholding tax on lotto prizes removed.

Concomitantly, as smuggling and illegal mining thrived on this highly lucrative market, China has also recently started a vigorous crackdown on illegal activity and took steps for greater regulation of the rare earth metals sector.

HURIWA accused governor Okorocha of illegal use of armed soldiers and mobile policemen to carry out a simple task of stopping possible breach of peace as a consequence of the controversial demolition of the longstanding market in the heart of Owerri city.

«What we now need is brave political leadership to openly acknowledge that new ways of controlling illegal drug markets and discouraging use are required.

She said «It is important both as an issue of the well - being of our people as well as preventing any black listing of our two countries on the international commodity market for the use of illegal labour.

Also, Iyaloja Araromi Oke - Odo Market, Mrs Dupe Shonola and Babaloja General of Agbado Oke - Odo Market, Alhaji Abiodun Kosoko urged government to make examples of the perpetrators of the illegal act, but called for expansion and modernization of the mMarket, Mrs Dupe Shonola and Babaloja General of Agbado Oke - Odo Market, Alhaji Abiodun Kosoko urged government to make examples of the perpetrators of the illegal act, but called for expansion and modernization of the mMarket, Alhaji Abiodun Kosoko urged government to make examples of the perpetrators of the illegal act, but called for expansion and modernization of the marketmarket.

Lexington Market, 105 Lexington Avenue where sewage backup, illegal plumbing, electrical hazards, and an out of service fire alarm system were found by Code Enforcement.

Initiatives under consideration include public housing safety, upgrading city police technology in precincts and a study of the illegal gun market.