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The next day, in a cat-and-mouse game with reporters over the meaning of "permissive environment," Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart alternately defined it as a) "one where there is a political settlement"; and b) "an environment where the Serbs and Milosevic don't have the ability to impose their will."
A number of RXR heterodimer complexes have been categorized as either permissive or non-permissive based on their responses to RXR ligands [ 1 ] . Although there are some reported discrepancies, the PPAR, FXR and NGF-IB/NURR1 complexes are generally considered permissive, while the non-permissive group includes the RAR, TR and VDR complexes (see [ 2 3 4 5 6 7 ] ). In the permissive complexes, coactivators can presumably bind to the AF-2 surface of both partners and binding to the RXR partner is stimulated by rexinoid agonists.
But most pundits shrug off this advice and blame the incident on 1) lax gun-control laws; 2) our violent, permissive popular culture; or 3) the popular choice: both.
The epidemic is the price of our permissive attitudes toward monogamy, chastity, and other forms of sexual conservatism.
The rexinoid responsive complexes are referred to as permissive and include the Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor (PPAR) and the Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) heterodimers; the Retinoic Acid Receptor (RAR), and Thyroid Hormone Receptor (TR) heterodimers are non-permissive [ 2 3 4 5 6 7 ] .