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In a book dealing with a subject of this sort one must be extremely careful to cleave to rigid definitions of the key terms ( euphemism, dysphemism, taboo , etc.) and not deviate from them.
There is little doubt that people who are driven by economic necessity will cleave to the language most closely associated with financial reward, and the opportunities offered by the Internet are immense compared with those formerly offered by books, motion pictures, television, and other media.
In this assay, the hammerhead ribozyme was able to cleave about 50% of the M6P/IGF2R target within 2 hr of incubation, and by 12 hrs, more than 90% of the M6P/IGF2R target was converted to the expected products (Fig.
People who cleave to such attitudes may also scorn slang, but they are very often unaware of the true pristine condition of the language or of the origins of words that are standard in contemporary speech.
This amount is in close agreement with the estimate of the amount of myosin-II that would be required to generate the forces that may be required to cleave a cell.