"We value him so highly, it's hard for me to envision we could get back what he means to us," said Wally Walker, Seattle's general manager.
Poinar says that "the technology has changed dramatically" since he started, adding that "everything for the copying and the sequencing of those molecules has grown at an exponential rate, so we're doing things now that I couldn't envision we could do even [a few] years ago".
As one of the senators involved in these discussions, Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Politico: "None of us, not one who voted for it, could have envisioned we were voting for the longest war in American history, or that we were about to give future presidents the authority to fight terrorism as far flung as Yemen and Somalia.
One of the Senators who is pushing for changes is Democrat Dick Durbin, who said this: None of us, not one who voted for it, could have envisioned we were voting for the longest war in American history or that we were about to give future presidents the authority to fight terrorism as far flung as Yemen and Somalia.
This required driving upstate, where prices would be lower and where, as I envisioned it, we could find a charming old stone house on the river.
In fact, our Founding Fathers envisioned that we could continue to take such action - that is why they designed a process for constitutional amendments, a system of checks and balances, and a vibrant democratic process.
We envisioned that we could fold, unfold, and refold a single oligomer strand in response to chemical stimuli.
Therefore, we envisioned that we could apply the previous method using the new information available to improve the annotation of other species.
"I have a very hard time envisioning how we could sell [a proposal involving] a wet mine to NSF," says physicist Wick Haxton of the University of Washington, Seattle, the proposal's lead investigator.
But I think the good news is that there are a lot of ways to envision that we could do something about it without utterly turning socioeconomic systems on their ear".
