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1 The bovine gall bladder model has been studied in our laboratory and we have shown that there are striking similarities in the composition of bovine and human bile apart from cholesterol concentration , which is five times less in cattle compared with human bile ( unpublished data ) .
2 In one study , necropsy was undertaken in about half of the patients who died , and showed graft occlusion only in patients given aprotinin .
3 Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period .
4 This trend was then halted or even reversed thereafter as large companies especially in manufacturing transferred their excess labour into smaller subcontractors or satellite companies .
5 In fact some of our more ancient cities and boroughs have Charters still in existence granted in Saxon times giving to local areas powers which were in effect autonomous government .
6 On the contrary , in both capitalist and non-capitalist states they have grown , in spite of a tendency in both camps to encourage private or other non-state direction , planning and management even in countries dedicated in theory to neo-liberalism , the sheer weight of what public revenue and expenditure represent in the economies of states , but above all their growing role as agents of substantial redistributions of the social income by means of fiscal and welfare mechanisms , have probably made the national state a more central factor in the lives of the world 's inhabitants than before .
7 Usually in open country fairly near fresh water , but not far up in hills or in towns ; nests colonially in holes excavated in sand and gravel banks .
8 The IPG also had to provide information to help bureaux cope with the transitional payments periods and appeals already in progress based on the previous regulations .
9 The Group recognises the importance of continuing to invest in research and development programmes bringing improvements to the Group both in products supplied to the consumer and in production techniques .
10 Their purpose was to span rivers without hindering navigation , by supporting a beam high above the water level on two towers , and carrying goods across in vehicles suspended from the beam on cables .
11 John Osborne 's Look Back In Anger added to the chorus from the lost boys of the lower middles .
12 Despite a general rise in attendances , several clubs were on the verge of bankruptcy and limped from one financial problem to another playing in front of miniscule crowds often in grounds designed to suit manic-depressives from the dark ages .
13 Paul Hoggett ( 1987 ) , for example , has sought to explain changes in the organization of local government largely in terms drawn from debates within economics and the sociology of work ( see , for example , Massey , 1988a ; Meegan , 1988 ) , which suggests that since the early 1970s there has been a move away from Fordist towards post-Fordist methods of production .
14 THE last hours in the lives of two British women murdered in South Africa were brought vividly to life yesterday in photographs taken just before they died .
15 Added to that was the desire to eradicate all vehicles with asbestos insulation by 1988 , a target not in fact achieved .
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