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Thanks largely to investigative reporting by the Financial Times , however, it has become clear that Yasuo Hamanaka, unlike Nick Leeson of Barings, was not a poorly supervised employee using his company's money to gamble on unpredictable markets.
Christie's character (a former horror-movie star) and her husband (Nick Nolte), their marriage damaged by grief over their runaway daughter, pursue extramarital affairs and unwittingly swap partners with a younger yuppie couple.
The Journal reports that Nick Leeson, whose reckless derivatives trades sunk Barings P.L.C.
In this manner, single base selectivity is achieved not only by the specific hybridization of the OCP ends to target sequences adjacent to the SNP, but also by the highly discriminative nick closure activity of the thermostable DNA ligase toward a perfectly matched substrate.
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) method was used to demonstrate apoptosis in SMCs and endothelial cells [ 6 ] . The TUNEL was performed on frozen sections.