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Blacks prefer the term Black; perhaps African-American is still too avant garde.
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched (F) Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué You should not sell the skin of the bear before you have killed him; (G) Man soll die Haut nicht verkaufen, ehe man den Bären gefangen hat You should not sell the skin before you have caught the bear; (R) He \?\ Not having killed the bear, do not sell the skin; (S) No vendas la piel del oso antes de matarlo Don't sell the skin of the bear before you have killed him.
A specific exon 20 mutation (T790M) was also detected by length analysis of fluorescently labeled (FAM) PCR products on a capillary electrophoresis device (ABI 3100 Avant, Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States), based on a new NlaIII restriction site created by the T790M mutation (2369 C→T), using the following primers: EGFR Ex20F, 5′-FAM- CTCCCTCCAGGAAGCCTACGTGAT-3′ and EGFR Ex20R 5′- TTTGCGATCTGCACACACCA-3′.
Interestingly, the strict Clementsian theory of facilitation, niche construction avant la lettre , has given way to a more pluralistic theory of succession.
Whereas we could get hotter and hotter under the collar about the ethics of displaying one man's collection of new art in a public institution, of public subsidy for art the public is goaded into hating, of how blasphemy has become an article of faith in an institutionalized avant garde, etc. etc.