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When private force failed, employers persuaded local and state governments to suspend due process of law, arrest suspected troublemakers, initiate mass deportations, and crush strikes with National Guardsmen--using what Commons and his associates called all "the paraphernalia of dictatorship."
As frustrating as this might be, it does have one advantage of providing plenty of ammunition for games of oneupmanship ! Personally, I like to keep my friends and associates properly informed and up to date and do not hesitate to correct them when they refer to, for instance, “Ivory Coast” (it is now PC to say Côte d'Ivoire, even in English), or “Burma” (which is, of course, Myanmar, capital city Yangon, not “Rangoon”).
HVMA: Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Do most of us identify with one or the other or are they just oversimplified descriptions designed to attract associates surfing the Web?
Recent studies indicate that PP5 associates with the GR-hsp90 complex [ 22, 23] suggesting that PP5 may influence the actions of GRs.