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Highly proficient laboratories which develop very narrow control limits may be unfairly penalized if a test result which falls just outside the control limits is rejected de facto.
Since unpaired nucleotides in known miRNAs have a tendency to be found in symmetric loops, the presence of asymmetric loops and bulged nucleotides was further penalized.
And, just as the intellectually undistinguished George W. doubtless got into Yale as a "legacy," JQA, though he had mastered Thucydides, surely wasn't penalized for his father's name when he was admitted to Harvard.
The move marks the first time specific Russian institutions have been penalized for suspected missile aid to Iran.
The papers take Clinton's remarks yesterday that Mexico should not be penalized for its performance in this area to mean that he plans to recommend later this month that Congress again certify the country as a reliable anti-drug partner.