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Chatterbox already knew Fannie Mae was one of the last great Washington rackets--a place where ordinary, competent, well-connected politicos and lawyers get to earn astronomical, Gordon Gekko-like sums (Johnson made an estimated $7.2 million in 1996) while working to preserve the government favors that help this ostensibly private, for-profit enterprise earn $3 billion or so a year.
Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society (read: office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.
Area of Inquiry-- Does the configuration of providers within the state promote the system's ability and capacity to develop, nurture, promote, recruit and retain strong and effective staff and leaders who are diverse and culturally competent?
Thus, both Th1 and Th2 effectors derived from DO11.hCARΔcyt mice are competent hosts for adenoviral transduction, and were equivalent to or better than naïve DO11.hCARΔcyt cells with respect to their transduction efficiencies and/or reporter expression levels.
The staging and performances are competent, if uninspired.