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The NYT reports the latest sign of the Mafia's decline: according to federal experts, the "Commission," the mob's equivalent to the U.N.
It's the engineering equivalent of the familiar political dodge, "mistakes were made."
In other experiments in which, prior to IL-1 stimulation, time was allowed for the IL-1Ra producing cells to establish concentrations equivalent to that of the recombinant, the inhibitory curve was shifted slightly to the left, indicating a slight increase in the effectiveness of IL-1Ra when provided as a transgene product.
Tsaritsyn was renamed for Stalin, -grad being the Russian equivalent of -ton or - burg in English.
It is not entirely accurate to describe Schur's book as a dictionary, for, although it is in alphabetical order (by Briticism, with the American equivalent in the Index), it combines definitions with descriptions of cultural phenomena (as in the entry for the Ashes , which needs an explanation rather than a mere definition).