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XIST and TSIX are conserved, overlapping, but oppositely oriented non-coding transcripts, which serve crucial functions in X-inactivation [ 9].
Often unaware of the particular Spanish origins of the struggle, many Europeans saw the civil war as a crucial conflict between democracy and dictatorship, or from the other side, as a conflict between law and order and the forces of social revolution and chaos.
In the rarefied world of concert music, film composers were always thought of as versatile and skilled, but with nothing crucial to say.
But the Post doesn't address a crucial distinction: how much of the criminal activity is violation of the drug laws and how much is something else.
Upon reading Don Sharp's otherwise well-researched article on unmentionables [XVIII,2], I had the distinct impression that he had gone too far in defining that crucial word.