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Negative intensity values are meaningless and problematic because they cannot be log-transformed, a manipulation that is a common prelude to downstream analysis of array data.
"The first strike would therefore only be the prelude to a long offensive."
On Sunday, for example, the liberal Observer , which previously supported the bombing as a prelude to a successful ground campaign, called Sunday for it to be scaled down, deciding that a land war is no longer a practical possibility.
On the contrary, thanks to the spread of the Internet and the rise to prominence of CNNfn and, above all, CNBC, the sell-off occurs with real-time commentary, real-time commentary that is already, almost before the fact, labeling what's occurring as "a sell-off," a "prelude to a correction," or "the first prick of the tech-stock bubble."
This is a prelude to a planned full-fledged boycott starting Nov. 23.