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Brand-new companies crop up on the Net that put longstanding, valuable franchises at risk.
The House honchos are exercised over CBO's longstanding overstatement of the budget deficit and its recent understatement of the budget surplus.
The role of genetics in modulating the immune response to infectious diseases is a topic of longstanding interest among epidemiologists, clinicians, population geneticists, and immunologists [ 1 2 ] . Zinkernagel and Doherty's Nobel Prize-winning discovery that cellular immunity to viral infections was "restricted" by the highly variable proteins of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) brought the field of immunogenetics into sharper focus [ 3 ] . Their demonstration that T lymphocytes recognize virus antigens displayed on a host cell "in the context of" MHC proteins immediately suggested the idea that genetic differences at the loci encoding the MHC might modulate the intensity and effectiveness of host response to infection.
But these were offset by a poor intake system, uneven supervision, a failure to undertake "aggressive legal work" and "a disturbing intransigence" by management to address longstanding morale and turnover problems.
The LAT front reports that California's Latinos' longstanding reluctance to vote--a trend that has consistently kept them politically under-represented there--appears to be changing.