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Structural similarities between distinct proteins often involve only a portion of each protein sequence.
17 Labor costs represent a significant portion of cost for many garment categories,18 and U.S. wage levels far exceed those of competitors in countries like the People’s Republic of China and Mexico.
for a period equal to or greater than 25 years or 70 percent of the economic usefullife of the unit determined as of the time the unit was built, with option rights to purchase or release some portion of the capacity and associated energy generated by the unit (or units) at the end of the period.
Studies of cohesion at the centromere reveal that as little as 100 bp (a portion of CDEII and the entire CDEIII) are required to direct cohesion [13,14,19].
The relevant portion of §504(a)(16) prohibits funding of any organization "that initiates legal representation or participates in any other way, in litigation, lobbying, or rulemaking, involving an effort to reform a Federal or State welfare system, except that this paragraph shall not be construed to preclude a recipient from representing an individual eligible client who is seeking specific relief from a welfare agency if such relief does not involve an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law in effect on the date of the initiation of the representation."