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Less comprehensive government files are also maintained by the Bureau of the Census (listing about 60,000 populated places), and by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the Bureau of Standards (a compilation, complete with numerical coding, of some 190,000 populated places, locales, and neighborhoods of all sizes).
Next to the Temple is the elegant Pousada dos Lóios (see page 178), a state-owned inn that was formerly a convent.
Indeed it was hypothesized that the high expression of ALDH1A1 (formerly known as class 1 ALDH) was responsible for the successful use of cyclophosphamide in tumor cell purging regimens during bone marrow transplantation [ 3 ] . The detection of elevated ALDH1A1 activity in the most primitive human hematopoietic progenitor cells [ 4 5 6 ] has provided evidence in support of this hypothesis.
Not all of verbal aggression is concerned with four-letter words; much of it (and many of the four-letter words) involves insults, racist and other prejudicial language, and other parts of the nether reaches of language formerly represented largely by asterisks.
This sounds pretty optimistic, and Larry Rhodes, a formerly homeless man who does "intake" at the shelter McDonald runs in Harlem, says the program has succeeded partly because it screens out drug addicts and hard cases.