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tpi : The tpi -PhPP showed 3 distinct optimal metabolic phenotypes- one glucose limited phase (P tpi 2 glucose, oxygen ), and two futile phases (Fig.
Widespread discontent arose from continued government instability, futile attempts to modernize the economy, and coffers depleted from the cost of maintaining overseas colonies.
Hyde's accommodations are noble but futile.
President Clinton and Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji failed to agree on terms for China's admission to the World Trade Organization . Backstage reports say that the deal is nearly complete but that the hostile atmosphere in Congress, particularly over reports of Chinese espionage at U.S. nuclear labs, makes it futile for Clinton to push WTO admission now.
There's a follow-up Page One story in today's Post , profiling a worker who died after a futile decade of trying to get the plant to acknowledge his illness.