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Thus, the second step in the computation of direction selectivity, i.e. the subtraction, is mediated by the opponent interaction between T4- and T5 cell input on the dendrites of each LPTC.
His pro-choice opponent, Michael Dukakis, ignored the question of the fetus's humanity and instead accused Bush of threatening to treat women like criminals for choosing abortion.
The Moscow Times said Tuesday that Republican front-runner George W. Bush is missing an excellent opportunity to attack his leading Democratic opponent Al Gore for the administration's policies toward Russia.
Since elections are comparative, the difference between campaigning "against your opponent" and campaigning "for yourself" is semantic.
Through all his trials, darkness had always been his strength, an obsidian girder holding him to the path; now it stood to crush him and, perhaps not coincidentally, the entire Republican ticket, which his opponent's ever-clever propagandists had labeled as "Dole-Gingrich," as if he and the pumpkin-headed speaker had conspired like Jesuits to ruin the nation.