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(2)(A) Three and one-half percent of the total amount of sulfur dioxide allowances allocated each year for affected EGUs under section 423 shall be allocated for units at a facility that are affected EGUs as of December 31, 2004, that commenced operation before January 1, 2001, and that are not allocated any sulfur dioxide allowances under subpart 1.
Consequently, the Army can eliminate its weakest candidates--about one-half of blacks and one-third of whites--and still have a large number of blacks--about one-third of the Army.
Only probe sets that are present in at least one-half of the samples from one of the treatment groups (either normal or deficient diet) were used for further analysis, we call this the "detection filter".
4indicate that at saturation (20 μM), lipid A from B. cepacia bound almost exactly one-half as many protegrin molecules as lipid A from P. aeruginosa . How might this be rationalized?
He explained to me that it was "one and one-half" because the song was about him, and he's Jewish, and his then-wife Carrie Fisher, is the daughter of Eddie Fisher, who's also Jewish, and Debbie Reynolds, who's not; hence, one and a half.