In the first formal response to its accusers -- three other telephone companies and a former employee -- MCI said its internal inquiry preliminarily revealed no evidence that it had improperly redirected telephone traffic to reduce the access fees it pays to local phone companies to complete long-distance calls.
It has said no, preliminarily, to efforts by a Vermont artist to patent his "Eat More Kale" T-shirts, after complaints from the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, which said it is too close to its "Eat More Chicken" slogan.
The analysis was carried out using the Alentsev Fock method, which requires no preliminarily notion about the possible shape and/or number of the individual absorption bands and extensive statistical calculations.
Preliminarily, we can say that no E. multilocularis could be found in the study area.
Results showed that no colony occurred, preliminarily indicating that isolated strains belonged to endophytic bacteria.
Best energy resources are of no doubt renewable energies, which preliminarily come from the solar energy.
While the effect of this approach would be to formally take the issue away from the jury and place it in the hands of the judge (at least preliminarily), unlike in a simple tort case there is no compelling policy reason for reserving this issue to the jury in the first place.
Through visual inspection of preliminarily identified M. truncatula CEP sequences, we verified that no CEP genes from version 4.0 pseudomolecules were present in version 3.5.2 unanchored BACs and unplaced contigs, and vice versa.
No such decisions have been made yet, even preliminarily, Wagner said.
But he did say that group representatives had, in a 24 May 2004 meeting with the NAS panel, presented recent unpublished research that preliminarily concluded that a perchlorate level of 110 ppb had no effect on pregnant women and infants, and that levels as high as 10,000 ppb had no effect on healthy adults.
