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Before the EPA was created in 1970, pesticides had to be registered but were virtually unregulated.

The police observed, but were virtually powerless to act; a telling image of the early 1990's was of impoverished police in burned-out east European sedans giving vain chase to the sleek Mercedes favored by the newly monied.

The results of the study made the front pages of the press in this country but were virtually ignored on network-television news shows which, as it happened, were nearly all sponsored by cigarette companies.

Indeed, infiltration of CD3+ cells in the skin dermis were found in the former but were virtually absent in the latter.

The haematopoietic markers CD45 and CD68 were expressed by both types of fibrocyte, as well as macrophages, but were virtually negative on fibroblasts.

Small KAP1 phosphorylation foci were visible after 30 min, increasing to 1 h, but were virtually undetectable at 4 h (Fig. 1E).

Earthgrains brands are big in the South and the Midwest but are virtually unknown elsewhere.

Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte are entering the final years of their deals, but are virtually untouchable.

As the state-run China Daily newspaper remarked in 2009, he should be a household name but is virtually unknown.

This year, the W.N.B.A. produced a far more compelling championship series than its big brother, but was virtually ignored.

The subway system, which had shut down on Thursday at 11 a.m., reopened but was virtually empty.