Sentences with phrase «in illegal markets»

The results confirm what many conservationists have suspected: Long - term stockpiles don't contribute much ivory to illegal trade, and poached ivory quickly ends up in illegal markets.

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The illegal ingredients found in these pills and powders include things like the banned controlled substance sibutramine, which the FDA slashed from the market nearly a decade ago and the chemical phenolphthalein, which some research has suggested may be linked to cancer.

The illegal ingredients found in these pills and powders include things like the banned controlled substance sibutramine, which the FDA banned from the market nearly a decade ago.

Bitcoin gained prominence in large part thanks to the Silk Road marketplace for illegal drugs and other black - market goods, a legacy that has persisted beyond Silk Road's shutdown.

Running illegal gambling operations, including recruiting people for foreign gaming junkets, was their main business, according to previously unreported court documents in China obtained by Bloomberg Markets as well as interviews with family members and former business partners.

And a proposed bill in Connecticut would make facial recognition illegal for marketing purposes.

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.

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

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.»

It turns that it was illegal to post in half the places the signs went, and I received a notice from the city to cease and desist my guerrilla - marketing tactics.

«While casinos routinely look for suspicious bets at sports books and have worked with law enforcement to identify illegal activity, in some cases leading to criminal convictions, no such oversight exists for the illegal sports betting market,» he said

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.

A single São Paolo street market, featuring 6,500 unlicensed merchants selling wares legal and illegal, does nearly $ 10 billion in trade a year.

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.

One reason: In 2012, the company paid a $ 3 billion fine to US authorities for various illegal marketing activities, but remained under investigation for fraudulent sales practices in China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuiIn 2012, the company paid a $ 3 billion fine to US authorities for various illegal marketing activities, but remained under investigation for fraudulent sales practices in China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuiin China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuit.

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.

«The problem is that the company has the word «bitcoin» in it, and it has nothing to do with bitcoin,» Brito said, adding that AML Bitcoin's marketing plays off the misconception that bitcoin is unsafe and illegal, which it is not.

«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.

«Premier Christy Clark should have taken concrete action against illegal activity in our overheated real estate market months ago.

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.

It is worth pointing out that the move to make bitcoin illegal can also put Colombia's economy at risk, considering the fact that the digital currency is growing in both value and popularity, thus creating a strong market that Colombia will have no access to unless they give up on their decisions.

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.

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.

«We note that price manipulation and other illegal activities are on the rise in the stock market,» a spokesman for the securities regulator, Deng Ge, said Friday.

Anyone who buys or sells rationed goods or controlled currency through illegal channels or above the established ceiling prices becomes a dealer in the black market.

This week we take a look at the tumultuous digital currency market, arrests for illegal Bitcoin mining, and IBM's increased interest in the digital currency space.

There is nothing illegal in building complex CRM systems that profile the customer market.

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.»

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...).

New intervention by the Consortium against illegal products destined for sale in the EU market

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!!!!

I think the secondary market might even be illegal in Europe.

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.

In fact, it was about illegal marketing practices, about the fact that infants in the third world die on watered down formula (because it's too expensive to mix properly), badly mixed formula (because parents can't read the directions), and formula made with contaminated wateIn fact, it was about illegal marketing practices, about the fact that infants in the third world die on watered down formula (because it's too expensive to mix properly), badly mixed formula (because parents can't read the directions), and formula made with contaminated watein the third world die on watered down formula (because it's too expensive to mix properly), badly mixed formula (because parents can't read the directions), and formula made with contaminated water.

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..

When she had her first home birth in Virginia in 1992, midwifery was still illegal in that state, and finding a midwife to deliver her baby at home meant navigating a secretive underground market.

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.

There are some predictable lines: the Tories are still failing on immigration; government is missing its own target; the Bill won't tackle biggest problems; «illegal immigration» is up and deportation numbers down; The Bill does nothing about exploitation in the labour market.