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Board of Education , Johnson seems to agree that it was an "unprincipled decision" that "turned out to be a prelude to a major step backward in American race relations."
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With Hillary and Chelsea Clinton already in Istanbul, and Bill Clinton due there from Ankara later this week for a summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Guardian of London fronted Monday the claim that the disastrous earthquakes in northwestern Turkey were "a prelude to a cataclysmic strike in Istanbul."
We sought to characterize the structure and expression of the APBA2 gene, as a prelude to analysis of this gene as a possible autism candidate.
It was suggested [ 3 ] that acquisition of these new functions (either by symbiosis or HGT) permitted previously free-living nematodes to expand their range into a new ecological niche (the plant) as a prelude to speciation into parasitic forms.