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"This administration," Helms writes, "in its shameful effort to curry favor with Silicon Valley executives, has loosened export controls on supercomputers, putting them in Russian nuclear weapons factories.
That most of the forbidden words of the 1950s are no longer forbidden will come as news to nobody: The steady debasement of the common language is only one of many social strictures that have loosened from the previous generation to the current.
Of course, what counts as pertinent to Whitewater has already been loosened considerably, and could get looser.
He loosened his tie.
These fingerprints are unambiguously related to their cDNA as a search in the complete GenBank database (see material and methods) showed only the corresponding murine cDNA hits even though the search parameters were loosened to account for the above mentioned differences in experimentally derived fragment lengths to the real sequence.