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The government of Chiang Kai-shek was so busy tracking down the Communists that the Japanese foe merited only casual attention.
Regarding intelligence reports, the Daily Intelligence Summary (DIS) prepared by the FAA's Office of Civil Aviation Intelligence was reviewed first by an assistant to Acting Deputy Administrator Belger, who would inform him of any information that she felt merited his attention.
The remaining datasets were considered in the following order and resulted in an additional one or two points: the cDNA and annotation data were analyzed to determine if any entry in this class spanned the entire length of the CDS; if so, an additional two points were assigned, and if not, GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ and error report entries were analyzed and if any spanned the length of CDS, two points were assigned; if none of these data classes corresponded to the full-length CDS, then the existence of partial cDNA data and/or overlapping EST data merited one point.
A post-acquittal CBS poll finds that 78 percent think he's guilty, though only 32 percent think his crimes merited expulsion from office.
It merited only a few brief mentions in the history of the following centuries.