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Better to take the bitter medicine now--to let unemployment rise, to force companies to purge themselves of redundant capacity--than to postpone the day of reckoning.
In contrast, the Euro-skeptic Times of London speculated that the collective action might, in fact, represent a further avoidance of individual responsibility, and worried about the possible "renomination" of the entire commission (an idea floated by Santer Tuesday): "This supposedly cathartic drama could end up as a 'Japanese' purge, in which heads roll only to ensure that things continue much as before, with much the same discredited cast.
After the purge of foreigners, only a few stayed on, strictly confined to Dejima Island in Nagasaki Bay.
Typically, purge streams are used if the wastewater contains high levels of chlorides.
Apoptosis is considered a safeguard that enables an organ to purge itself of transformed cells [ 10 11 ] , and its inhibition is proposed as a mechanism by which non-genotoxic hepatocarcinogens produce liver cancer [ 9 23 ] . We examined the effect of RU 486 on the hepatic expression of two genes involved in the regulation of this function [ 10 11 ] , c-myc and p53, to evaluate how RU486 might inhibit apoptosis.