But then there is another difficulty: making the components exactly the right size is even more crucial for a quantum-effect device than for a regular transistor.

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Mr McGuinness said the crucial ingredient that added to his hesitancy was the effect it would have on pro-Good Friday Agreement unionists.

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"What is crucial is that a government practice not have the effect of communicating a message of government endorsement or disapproval of religion, " she wrote.

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But the positivity effect has drawbacks: Older people often ignore crucial but nettlesome details or fall prey to scammers selling the moon.

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Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law recently held a hearing on three of the bills, aimed at fixing the problem on behalf of state and local governments--which depend on sales taxes to support police, fire, and other crucial services--and calming fears about the negative effect of e-commerce on their tax bases.

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Whatever the merits of those adjustments may have been, they had the effect of increasing expenses in a program where cost is a crucial metric of success.

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Most did nothing, but one protein he tested in April 1998 had remarkable properties: It made a crucial class of immune cells called B-cells grow like crazy, while having little effect on other cells.

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In effect, the U.S. government is taking sides, potentially significantly impeding the crucial devolution of communist economic and political authority away from Moscow center.

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Kirkland played a crucial role in the peaceable collapse of communism in Poland during the 1980s, which began the domino effect that ultimately brought down the Berlin Wall.

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Arena Pharmaceuticals' experimental obesity drug passed a crucial safety test, but it may take at least six more months before worries about a potential side effect really start to abate.

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