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As discussed in the previous section on risk analysis, the central security groups served primarily as advisers or consultants to the business units, and, thus, they generally did not have the ability to independently dictate information security practices.
We postulate here that elements conserved in all the members of related protein families dictate common structures and also common "functions", i.e., individual steps in a complex reaction.
The newspaper attacked "the hypocrisy which governs US policy on nuclear matters" and said "no country has the right to dictate to another what policies it can and cannot follow."
It is possible that RANKL and IFN-γ expression by activated T cells may be a major mechanism by which T cells control the fate of osteoclasts, and that relative expression of both molecules will dictate whether osteoclasts are induced or inhibited.
He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1. He also directed that they have cost-sharing arrangements in place by August 1. Rice told us that this attempt by Hadley to dictate a solution had failed and that she eventually had to intervene herself.