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In order to determine if CMV was undergoing an abortive or replicative infection, separate CMV superinfection experiments were performed.
The island’s next important historical encounter was with the Mongols under Kublai Khan, when Kyushu was the target of abortive assaults in 1274 and 1281.
In contrast, trophoblast cultures from abnormal placentae, which are characterized by weak or no Thy-1 expression in the villous core (panel D), exhibit abortive formation of small (s) syncytial aggregates (panels E and F).
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.
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.