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Try to get a job at Harvard, or even at the University of Chicago, merely by singing the praises of free markets; you will learn the hard way that the currency of academic success is creativity, not ideological correctness.
It merely allows a woman to go to the doctor without someone screaming in her face.
Degas' manipulations of perspective, decentered compositions, and so on were always latent in the practice of Western painters; he merely pushed them further than anyone else had.
The presence of completely different conserved residues and the asymmetric head to tail arrangement of the monomers in the pair suggest that the ancestral DPBB dimer was not specialized, had no catalytic activity, and merely bound RNA.
In both the United States and Britain, where there was once a coherent (albeit often unpopular) alternative to conservatism, there is now merely a tepid version of the same, with added self-righteousness.