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That has not happened--as witness, for instance, health care, which, after the political fiasco of Hillary Clinton's abortive reform, is increasingly being governed by insurance companies and HMOs.
However, the fact that only a small percentage of the B-cells showed evidence of CMV infection along with the lack of virus in the supernatant supports the probability that the CMV infection of the BJAB-B1 cells represents an abortive infection.
Also in Maariv , Yosef Lapid wrote that Hussein might have made two grave mistakes--in 1967 when he joined Egypt's abortive attempt to destroy Israel, and in 1990 when he supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait--but he was nevertheless "the only Arab leader Israeli citizens saw as 'an enemy who became a friend.
In order to determine if CMV was undergoing an abortive or replicative infection, separate CMV superinfection experiments were performed.
The papers all have the same basic lawsuit details: The government and state lawyers argue that after an abortive attempt at an "illegal conspiracy" deal with browser rival Netscape, Microsoft violated antitrust laws by using its virtual lock with Windows to dominate the Internet browser market.