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[Click for Isikoff's explanation of his abrupt departure that evening on Pages 205-06.
These abrupt and far-reaching changes on an island proud of its traditional ways brought strain and conflict.
Immunostaining for E2F in the furrow of the eye disc showed an abrupt drop in protein levels at the position where most cells exit G1 and initiate S phase [ 12 ] . Using a double label approach, we were able to test directly for overlap between E2F presence and S phase as marked by 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation in dividing cells of the wing disc despite the asynchrony of division.
Telephon is too near telephone, I fear, to be admissible; telephone is exotic; phogram is too abrupt, and is suggestive of program, grogram, and Elijah Pogram.
The NYT passes this theory along but spends most of its EgyptAir ink reporting that American crash investigators have been drawn to the role of the relief pilot not just for the reference he made to God shortly before the plane went down, but also because of the abrupt way he took the co-pilot's seat just minutes before the catastrophe.