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One reason they shouldn't, it now seems, is that unless someone like Jack Welch--of General Electric--is in charge, management tends to concentrate on the industries they know something about and neglect those they don't.
The viola tends to be plaintively melancholic, or else to squawk, ugly-duckling style, like a bassoon or an English horn.
Prediction of structures and function(s) of uncharacterized proteins is one of the principal outcomes of these analyses, and experimental verification of such predictions tends to increase confidence in the validity of sequence-structure comparative approaches.
Maybe this is what it comes down to: Even when you and I agree, my take tends to be earnest and yours--by comparison, anyway--instinctively skeptical.
In the absence of such a detailed-and repeated-articulation, national security tends not to rise very high on the list of congressional priorities.