Hence his haste, evident again this week in a decision to call for a demonstration against the budget in Rome on December 2nd.

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The argument goes that even though Vertex is going to sell a ton of telaprevir over the next few years, sales could crater when even newer drugs hit the market and completely change things again--hence the excitement about both Zymogenetics and Idenix.

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After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.

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Clearly all this superhero stuff has tried Tory patience too much and hence the kid gloves have come off again.

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But again, we know this already: hence the ubiquitous monuments to Chavez.

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If the government soaked up enough resources then competition for those resources would become more intense, inflation would begin to heat up and there would again be an economic return to saving and hence freeing resources.

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But when politicians eventually take charge again in Pakistan, a little more than a year hence, they are likely to find themselves hemmed in.

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