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In response to its lawsuit in 1999, a judge ordered the Paterson Housing Authority to correct a defective relocation plan for residents at the Christopher Columbus Housing Development and remove all squatters and drug dealers.
But the other common measurements--pages served, or "hits"--are even more defective.
There were also reports of vote-buying by the incumbent Golkar Party of former dictator Suharto and of "logistical problems" such as defective ballots and "indelible ink" (designed to prevent multiple voting), which, in practice, "washed off voters' thumbs in minutes."
Moreover, he had found another problem: The speedometer was defective.
The A326S mutation of α i1 and A366S mutation of α s (cognate to the α i2 A327S used in this study) were shown to cause greatly decreased affinity for GDP [ 9 10 ] . Defective binding of GDP leads to more Gα in the empty state (no bound guanine-nucleotide), and this form of Gα is rapidly denatured in vitro , as shown for α s A366S and α i1 A326S [ 9 10 ] . Moreover, α s A366S was demonstrated to undergo rapid degradation (t 1/2 < 1 h) in stably transfected cells [ 9 ] . The same mutation in α t has also been shown to greatly decrease guanine-nucleotide binding [ 5 22 ] . Additional amino acids in the critical β6-α5 loop are important for maintaining Gα integrity [ 7 ] .