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With only five of the 13 appropriations bills approved, Congress was forced to extend the temporary spending measure that is keeping the government open beyond its Thursday expiration.
"For my part," the flickering image of Gore intoned, "I have proposed dedicating a significant portion of the budget surplus to Medicare to extend the life of the trust fund."
These results suggest that the MBEI method is able to extend the reliable detection limit of expression to a lower mRNA concentration.
Charles Schumer is taking a lot of heat for supporting President Clinton's plan to extend Medicare to prescription-drug coverage after taking campaign contributions from a couple of big drug companies . But since the drug companies have firmly opposed the expansion of Medicare before semi-caving recently, all Schumer did was take their money and then sell them out.
The results of the Oregon analysis extend the findings from previous NRL workers' compensation studies conducted in other states with different workers' compensation systems.