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The LAT lead says the Republican grip on the House is "especially tenuous" because the party has the slimmest majority either party's had there since 1954, Democrat fund raising is more effective than it's historically been, and because more than three times as many Republican incumbents as Democrats are vacating their seats.
Now that the party has lost its grip, analysts foresee a wave of opportunistic defections by politicians, as happened to Southern Democrats in the United States.
5) Psychopathic kids are in the grip of violent fantasies.
Knowing he had lost his grip on the crowd when they inquired what was for dessert, he decided to make a radical change in his life."
The NcoA family members constitute SRC-1/NcoA-1 [ 89 ] , TIF2/GRIP1/NcoA-2, [ 94 95 ] and pCIP/ACTR/AIB1 [ 96 97 98 ] proteins, which interact with liganded RA receptor (RAR), and CBP/p300.