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The WP story about drugs is consistently buttressed by appeal to U.S. law enforcement sources, but it could sorely use some independent expert voices, because it never really comes to grip with the seeming indeterminism of its data.
' " Thus "available" is bootstrapped into "used" and "used" into "used in Laos," while "used in Laos in this particular operation" sneaks through by implication, all buttressed by the empty assertion that "this"--what?
The official explanation at the time, that the U.S. pilot locked onto an empty railroad bridge, and only after that did the train very quickly come onto it, was buttressed by the Pentagon's showing of a nose-cone video.
Our earlier conclusions [ 23 ] have been substantially buttressed by the new features of these time-series analyses: With respect to its effects on clock-gene cyclings, the cry b mutation significantly reduces the number of rhythmic antennal pairs, heads, bodies and forelegs (but not wings) compared with cry +controls.
Top-down rank: an apex of professors and doctors buttressed by the holders of college degrees (many of them lower-level administrators, teachers, and researchers within the system).