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But Shlaes tries to resurrect it by discussing "real bracket creep"--the process of people shifting into higher tax brackets as their real income climbs.
In each case, a word or phrase that provides a synonym appears in a box, followed by the pronunciation(s), followed by a part-of-speech label, followed by a symbol in brackets keyed to grammatical information given in the forematter ([T] being the symbol for “transitive verb, which has an object”), the definition and a series of collocational examples.
Control cDNA clones (GenBank Accession numbers are in brackets) from Arabidopsis thaliana (T76518, T45394, H37673), human cytomegalovirus (NP_039949, NP_039950, NP_039952, NP_039955, NP_039971, NP_039974, NP_039976) E. coli (J04423: BioB, BioC, BioD) and B. subtilis (X04603, M24537, X17013, L38424) were provided by the Scripps Research Institute's microarray facility and were chosen to lack homology to human sequences.
A certain amount of updating might be in order, perhaps by enclosing in square brackets subscription rates in effect at the time of publication of the book.
Inside the curly brackets in the penultimate line above, we have the sum of two terms, each of which itself is the product of a nonpositive term and a nonnegative term; thus, the curly brackets are nonpositive.