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The NYT notes that his comment provoked Martina to call Mr. Williams a "big mouth."
But the library has provoked Little Rock not just because it's a litmus test about Clinton.
This explanation is unlikely to account fully for Cdc5's role in exit from mitosis, however, because (1) overexpression of Cdc5, but not Dbf2/Mob1, provoked ectopic release of Cdc14 from the nucleolus; and (2) the Dbf2/Mob1 kinase complex is at least partially activated and is correctly localized to the spindle pole body in 50% of cdc5 cells at the nonpermissive temperature [ 16 17 ] .
The government organ said that while the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade provoked widespread indignation, NATO leaders, instead of changing their stand, "have continued the barbaric raids on an even larger scale against Yugoslavia."
However, Athenian involvement provoked the Persian king Darius to invade the Greek mainland.