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"Mom," which focuses on women in recovery, has a get-straight message, which may merely be a reflection of Mr. Lorre's rather sobering experience dealing with Charlie Sheen at the height of that actor's substance-infused public meltdown.

Even with very high fructose supplementation, there is only a modest alteration of hepatic glucose metabolism, which may merely represent a metabolic adaptation to the consumption of a glycogenic substrate rather than a step toward diabetes.

In spite of these disparities, which may merely reflect tissue-specific effects of the molecule and differences in experimental design, the data support a novel role for this protein in the stress response to sepsis.

This movement (which may have merely been just good marketing) may have reached its zenith, at least in the popular culture, in 1993, when the inspired silent show "Fool Moon," starring BILL IRWIN and DAVID SHINER, opened on Broadway to rave reviews.

Netanyahu's government ended the summer by reintroducing legislation that defined Israel as the "state of the Jewish people" — which may seem merely axiomatic in the cultural sense but actually aims to reinforce not only Jewish privilege but Orthodox strictures.

This is in part the fault of the media, which endlessly tries to manufacture splits within parties (as if all leaders were automatons, who had to agree with colleagues on everything), or to find "gaffes", which may consist merely of the recognition by a politician that the facts have changed, and that policy must adjust accordingly.

But such use of language need not reflect the individual's epistemic commitment, which may be merely to take the theory to be empirically adequate (van Fraassen 1980, 151 152).

Apparently Huffington was not fair to the company, which may have merely overcharged the government to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars due to "waste and inefficiency".

The changes in iron levels in the placenta were very closely paralleled by the levels of HAMP expression, which may be merely responding to the tissue's fluctuation in iron concentration [69] or conversely, responding to a signal from outside the placenta, and in turn modulating iron export rates from this tissue to the fetal compartment [68].

A band tailor-made for the festival circuit, in other words, which may explain the merely polite reception they received at the hands of a seated audience of jazz buffs on a cold March evening in Nottingham.

This could make the recall look merely destructive, which may be why only a handful even of Republican legislators have endorsed it.Twenty-five years ago this month, in another spate of fury at their elected rulers, Californians passed Proposition 13.