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A "public security investigator" quoted by the paper speculated that Aum will "grow into a stronger and bigger organization with ironclad solidarity" when Fumihiro Joyu, a senior cult member, is released from prison in November.
Quite a few investigators have speculated that diallelic polymorphisms such as SNPs or diallelic indels will supplant STRPs in human Screening Sets.
Whereas, the Times speculated, a sensible response to the hijacking might have been "to pool regional forces in anti-terrorist measures which might either negotiate with the hijackers or flush them out of the plane by force," since India has "frayed diplomatic ties with Pakistan and none with the internationally shunned Taleban régime … channels for coordinated action … did not exist."
This dress is what Alfred Hitchcock used to call the McGuffin--the all-important object whose pursuit frames a narrative (examples: the Maltese falcon, Charles Foster Kane's sled, and the uranium-packed wine bottles in Hitchcock's own Notorious ). The Love Dress's existence was first speculated upon in the Drudge Report (where it was black) and then on ABC (where it was navy blue).
Pessimists speculated that Jobs' caustic perfectionism would make it hard to hire a good CEO.