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The auction shall be held on the first business day in October of the year in which theauction is required or, in the absence of such a requirement, of the year before the first year for which the allowances may be used to meet the requirements of section 403(e)(2).
7. NSC memo, Summary of Conclusions of Deputies Committee Meeting (held by secure teleconference), Sept. 11, 2001.
The two flaps fold over the inhibitor to form a tunnel-shaped active site and are held in this close position by hydrogen bonding from Ile50 and Ile50' NH groups of the enzyme to a water molecule, which in turn is hydrogen bonded to the P2 and P1' CO groups of the inhibitor [ 24 ] . The bonding stabilizes the flaps in a closed position and inhibits the activities of the enzyme.
(The Times reprinted the December letter; to read it, click here) The deal had been held up for more than two years, even though, as the Globe noted in passing, "the FCC has never turned down a local market license transfer."
His nomination had been held up for 14 months, first on ethics questions and then because of spats between the GOP and the White House.