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Ultimately, I suspect the company will need to be broken up (much as AT&T was), with the OS division allowed to retain its natural monopoly but the other divisions forced to face the same competitive pressures that Netscape and other entrants face.
CoolMax and Powerdry fared equally well in battling the sweat I worked up running laps around Slate 's offices, but CoolMax gets the nod because not only does it not retain odor, even when worn for two days and nights without deodorant, but it truly feels like silk.
Second, amino-acid sequence alignments of the diversified proteins show that these proteins still retain the identity of critical domains, such as signal peptides and transmembrane domains, as well as critical residues in the active sites of enzymes (Table 2and data not shown).
I wrote, as I always do, “a historical,” which I consider to be better modern English, though many scholars prefer to retain the archaic “an historical,” just as some preachers retain the obsolete “an holy” and “an house,” which they find in the Bible of 1611.
For example, if the first nucleotide substrate were to bind weakly but the presence of the first bound substrate promoted efficient binding of a second substrate, then a heterodimer containing one functional and one nonfunctional active site would retain only one low-affinity binding site and be severely defective.