Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gift will allow the Medical School to bring together molecular and integrative methods of research scientists are currently studying how diseased genes function, and how those genes can be made normal. Integrative researchers are examining how information is transfered in specific brain circuits...
...That each major league staff is reduced to six or seven pitchers, so be it. A guy named Old Hoss Radbourne once threw five complete games in a six-day span just before the turn of the century, so don't tell me that Roger Clemens' arm can't function without four days' rest...
Barlett and Steele, who are not ideologues of any discernible persuasion, leave the distinct impression that government has begun to function like a gang. According to political science, "the state" is supposed to be a neutral place where various interest groups -- like, say, the rich and the unrich -- meet to work things out, far from the noisy marketplace. Instead, government seems to have become a place where legislators meet lobbyists, to the happy advantage of each. As for being above the marketplace -- even laws are for sale here. When the rich have exhausted all the other evasive tactics, they...
...living," Abd-Allah said. "Think and understand...the [Islamic] law does not function through dogma and tyrannical enforcement, but through adaptation and understanding...
...would be easier to enforce. The compliance rate in the United states is less than 90 percent for income taxes and around 65 percent for capital gains tax, whereas the compliance rate for VATs in Europe and elsewhere is in the high 90s. This is largely a function of the simplistic format...