The appointment was usually given to a person who planned to run for the office that November; thus, the interim appointee had the advantage of being an incumbent.
And the interim military government took advantage of the assault to threaten a crackdown against street protesters continuing to call for faster reform.Yet Egyptian attitudes to Israel are rarely simple.
Ray Haygood of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund said his organization would set up a hot line for people to call and report "jurisdictions that will try to take advantage of this interim period".
With that housing crisis still in full swing, they said, the stakes were too high to give any candidate the advantage of the interim mayor role without challenging that person on affordability issues.
The interim analysis demonstrated no survival advantage for either group, and therefore further inclusion of patients was stopped.
This has the advantage that, as an interim measure, it is hard to disagree with.
These experts argue that the Oslo peace process allowed both sides to keep jockeying for advantage, by taking only interim steps and pushing off the toughest questions.
Greg Jost, deputy director of University Neighborhood Housing Program, a nonprofit housing group in the Bronx, said that the advantage of creating such interim housing is that it would help preserve vacant apartments for those in need of permanent places to live.
The trial was terminated at second interim analysis because of the survival advantage found for activated drotrecogin alfa.
In the case that the alternative biomarker is almost the same price, or is unlikely to have high concordance with the gold-standard biomarker, then there is less advantage to including an interim analysis.
As the duration of accrual decreases (accrual rate increases), the advantages of doing an interim analysis become less pronounced.
