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The Los Angeles Times reports today that a 1991 trip to Asia, made by the then-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the late Ron Brown, a trip which has yet to draw the scrutiny of investigators, may have provided the groundwork for the Democrats' foreign fund-raising from Asian special interests.
The groundwork had been laid for Steve Ballmer's accession to the throne, and it's been clear for a while that Wall Street is very comfortable with Ballmer at the reins.
However, the genes identified in the present study are significantly different from those reported by others, which may reflect differences in the approaches used and types of tissues analyzed [ 42 43 44 45 ] . This preliminary study serves as groundwork for our laboratory, and we believe, it will be worthwhile to examine their role in ECs.
In Maine, much of the groundwork for comprehensive state planning had already been laid when the Corporation issued its first program letter on the subject in 1995.
The groundwork for a true global terrorist network was being laid.