The necessary antecedent to those powerful rules was, naturally, a congressional investigation: the Pecora Commission.

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' So you know people do have a historical antecedent to this.

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What Dr Nedelcu and Dr Michod did was to look for an antecedent of regA in a single-celled creature, in order to find out what its job was.

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Obama, throughout his career, has faced a challenge in how best to manage his political antecedent.

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The final paradox concerns Britain's booming industry, now turning out 2m cars a year, back up to the output levels of the 1970s, before the unions started demolishing Rover's antecedent, British Leyland.

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