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This approval is another example of the benefits of the Orphan Drug program, which provides incentives for the development of treatments for diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States a year. Until now, Pompe disease has had no approved treatment.

This also will save us money without affecting our customers.

Chris Jones

This is affecting hundreds of homes and businesses.

With current gene therapy, it's possible to switch genes on and off, but you don't really know if you are affecting other parts and processes of the cell as well. You may be able to get a plant cell to produce a certain desired product, but the yield may drop significantly.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

The system keeps going down and the reason for that is not all Medicare part D enrollees have received their cards. It's created a surge in capacity. It's one database being used for the entire country, so it's affecting everybody.

It's a renewable, valuable resource that we should be using, ... It saves on fossil fuel, we're not burning anything so we're not affecting the air quality.

Susan Taylor

The research being discussed here is critical to solving the problems affecting millions of consumers and patients worldwide, ... L'Oreal is helping to focus the rigorous science of skin and hair on the needs of ethnic people. This science improves our knowledge of skin and hair diseases, treatments and products. This exciting meeting lays critical groundwork for the future.

There's definitely a change in demographics, and it's affecting us. Historically, the fire departments have been made up of blue-collar.

It's affecting us and the teams like everybody else in America. It's hurting us in the pocketbook. Everybody works off a budget. I've seen comments from team managers who said they're way over budget. When they were making their budgets last November for this season, who would have thought that gas would be $3 a gallon? It's pretty significant considering how much gas we use in our normal course of business.

It's affecting the morale of employees, hanging over their heads. We need to get it over with sooner rather than later. It's much better for employees and residents.

Mark Burnett

It's a really, really good move for us, ... We were asking too much of the audience with three times a week. It was adversely affecting our partner CBS, which saw a dip in the night.

It really pains me; it hurts me to know the fallout from that is affecting all of Indian Country. I apologize to each and every one of you.

It opens the way to a peaceful and lasting solution to the crisis affecting this country.

Government will not turn its back to the plight of our citizens and leave them at the mercy of these irresponsible city fathers, many of whom steered clear of meaningful progress on the socio-economic problems affecting residents over the past years.

All the prices have gone up due to supply and demand with all the hurricanes. What's really affecting prices now is fuel cost.

Thabo Mbeki

The (energy) sector that you represent is central to global economic and social development and, therefore, has enormous possibilities to contribute to an atmosphere of optimism affecting all countries, especially the developing countries,

The higher level of energy prices is certainly affecting the psychology of consumers. But the underlying strength of the economy, and the continued increase in the relative strength of the underlying job market should prevent consumer spending from collapsing.

This is a grass roots initiative that will potentially expand nationwide. The registry will expedite response efforts for emergencies affecting the health and wellness of citizens.

The Columbus City Council does not have the time or the resources to drill down to every single issue affecting every single neighborhood in Columbus.

The damages are really the big issue. Are you just poking around, checking your e-mail, or are you doing it on a regular basis and affecting this person's bandwidth?

The idea in the marketplace that (the Canadian dollar) is a one-way trade is possibly drawing unwanted investor attention with potential implications affecting the fabric of an economy in the midst of a resource reallocation process.

Daniel Pearson

And it's different than the tsunami in Asia, where the disaster was half a world away. This time it's so close to home. It's affecting a place that many of us have visited and are familiar with. Some of us know people who live there or have relatives in the region. It's much harder to separate ourselves from this.

The geopolitical tensions are affecting people. They're not happy with Washington and when they're not happy about Washington, it ends up making them not happy about the economy.

The earnings warnings show that profits are under pressure, but it's not affecting the overall market because of the big move in interest rates. The key for stocks is still the bond market.

The legislation of Azerbaijan indicates that in the case of serious violations affecting the elections, certain measures must be taken. I think that one of the scenarios can be a recount.

The construction industry and transportation sector in Kansas have pushed 2005 growth into the very strong range. However, higher interest rates will slow growth for both industries in the first half of 2006. The rate at which our Asian trading partners open their borders to U.S. beef will be an important factor affecting growth for the state in 2006.

Rick Carlisle

You could tell it was affecting his game offensively just because so many things involved with shooting the ball happen with your left hand. Rhythmically, he just wasn't the same over the last week or 10 days.

You can't always rely on external forces. You have to believe in yourself and that inner confidence has a way of affecting other people. Each single person has to realize that they are responsible for how good or how bad we will be. The work they put into themselves will determine our successes and failures.

The macro environment is affecting technology. You've gone from where people were overly optimistic about tech to where people are looking for change.

The drought compounds what was already a dire humanitarian situation and is affecting communities in areas beset by years of high malnutrition and morbidity rates, chronic food insecurity, clan fighting and suffering from consecutive bad harvests.

Jo Bonner

The four rural counties in the district also received wind and rain damage and experienced power outages affecting thousands of families.

The cumulative impact of a worsening economy, declining capital investments and reduced consumer spending is strongly affecting the Japanese market. Although the Japanese market resisted for a while, it now looks like the PC market in Japan will be flat-to-negative into 2002.