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Editor Abdelbari Atwan reported that all the Gulf states, hard hit by the collapse of oil prices and blaming Western countries for it, have taken an unpublicized decision to "freeze" arms purchases so that their Western suppliers will also feel the pinch.
Now that the states have struck their own settlement deal with the industry, Clinton is considering whether to extract some of that money by withholding Medicaid reimbursements to the states.
This is the approach that was taken on the retrofit of PSNH Merrimack Unit 2, the first retrofit of a coal-fired boiler in the United States.
Cells were incubated at room temperature for 30 min, washed, then analyzed using a two-laser, four-color FACSCalibur (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States) or sorted using a FACSVantage flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson).
The paper quotes the head of Amnesty International, who is from Senegal, as saying that "it seems to me that the international community, in terms of standards, is moving really ahead of the standards obtained in the United States today."