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What happened in the Senate, the papers report, is that in successive votes to force floor consideration of two campaign reform measures--one simply a ban of the unregulated campaign use of donations made to the national political parties ("soft money"), the other a broader bill that also would have tightened rules about "issue ads" that actually function in support of particular candidates--the pro forces achieved slim majorities, but fell short of the 60 votes required to cut off a filibuster against the measures.
2. "Successive headlines on TheStreet.com's International news page read: 'Central Bankers Look Set to Lengthen the Good Times' and 'Leaders Fiddle As World Burns.'
Forty-two eligible patients from the Jonathan Lax Immune Disorder Clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were randomized via sealed envelopes in a 1:1 fashion to a first phase (phase I) of either (1) three successive TIs of 2, 4, and 6 wk, respectively, or (2) maintenance of ART for 40 wk before a final interruption of therapy in both arms (phase II) subject to therapy reinitiation criteria as described below.
The occurrence of three Runx genes in vertebrates, each on a different chromosome, is consistent with a scenario of multiple gene duplications, or two successive rounds of genome duplications that may have occurred near the base of the vertebrate branch of chordates [ 19 ] . In contrast, the multiple Runx genes in Drosophila are all physically linked to runt on the X chromosome, and were almost certainly generated by local gene duplication events (for the location of the Drosophila genes, see FlyBase Genome Browser: http://www.bdgp.org/cgi-bin/annot/gbrowse).
The starter module then hands the resulting ‘diketide’ on to the second module (first reducing it, if appropriate, using reductive enzymes ‘borrowed’ from fatty acid biosynthesis) for typical extension by successive condensation with malonyl-CoA units to complete the chain.