Mark Zoller, acting scientific director of the Genomics Center, expects to finger the target gene by the end of this year.

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Such seizures risk turning the news media's news-gathering process into an investigative tool of the government, said Gene Policinski, senior vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center.

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All of this is what my Tax Policy Center colleague Gene Steuerle long-ago dubbed tax deform.

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According to Gene Nichol, the chairman of the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, at the U.N.

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And, as my Tax Policy Center colleague Gene Steuerle often notes, putting so much of government on autopilot has important implications for democracy as well as budgets.

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My former Urban Institute and Tax Policy Center colleague Gene Steuerle has put together a fascinating time series of spending change by presidency, measured as a share of GDP.

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But UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center is also in the process of gearing up to perform the kras gene test, says J.

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Gene Policinski, executive director of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, offered advice for those aspiring journos.

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To quickly compare the genes, the Genomics Center is using gene sequencing technology developed by Lynx Therapeutics, a biotech partner of Hoechst in Hayward, Calif.

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Instead of reform, this will only accelerate the trend towards what my Tax Policy Center colleague Gene Steuerle likes to call tax deform.

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