But DeGrado's interest in creating artificial molecules that mimic more complex natural ones may have a more immediate payoff: a powerful new generation of antibiotics.
Of course, if you have a more immediate need for a lump sum, for example to pay off a mortgage or other large debts, then the cash option may suit you better.
Each person was given a questionnaire in which they made choices between a smaller, immediate reward and a larger future reward (a common test for finding out if people are willing to delay gratification).
The CDU's tax-cut proposal is not a pledge of immediate relief but a signal that the party is on the side of the economy's producers, says Viola Neu, a political scientist at the CDU-linked Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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It made the disaster immediate in a way that news cams could not with their wide lenses and professional capturing of the aftermath.
So through living here and with staff support I am learning new ways to cope, even though I don't see the immediate effect a lot of the time, am now learning to be a little more patient.
The maintenance of the Aaa with a negative outlook into 2014 is highly unlikely unless the method adopted to achieve debt stabilization involved a large, immediate fiscal shock with a resulting unstable economic situation.
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One difficulty was finding a mechanism that would lead to the immediate lifting of a tribunal's injunction that had prevented BP and Rosneft from swapping shares.
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Luke McAlister, on as a replacement for Donald, made an immediate impression with a 50m penalty just after the hour to again bring the All Blacks to within a converted try.
The rally may well have been driven by a lifting of the intense economic gloom that enveloped the markets in the autumn of 2011 and a sense that the European authorities had removed the immediate threat of a banking collapse, while simultaneously halting the rapid rise in Italian and Spanish government-bond yields.
This is a very useful little tip from a Redditor: if you are lost somewhere in the menu hell of an automated telephone system a few well dropped profanities will lead to the almost immediate attention of a live human being.
The call for a ban, proposed by Monaco, was put to an immediate vote using a procedural ploy and rejected with 68 votes against, 20 in favour and 30 abstentions.
In the case of the Mailbox app, the complexity is that we have multiple actions that we might want to take in response to a message in our incoming stream, some of which are immediate and others wich involve deferring immediate action for a later (specified or unspecified) time.
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To a smoker the immediate, guaranteed pleasure of a good puff outweighs the long-term potential of cancer.
The impact that decision had on us as a family was immediate and only resolved itself a few years later after a gargantuan effort on our part to get things back to the way they had once been.
Yet, brands will need a more balanced measure of success, taking into account brand building beyond the immediate impact of a message.
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This is a more immediate issue and he has to make a decision fairly quickly whether to put the city into bankruptcy or not.
To return to Moody's for a second, it is difficult to see Germany retaining its AAA rating in the immediate aftermath of a eurozone breakup or in the transition phase to a United States of Europe - though it might well get the AAA back in both cases, in time.
For Iranians, a predominantly Shiite Moslem population, the 40th day marks the last official day of mourning in the immediate aftermath of a death.
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Second, mix models measure immediate effects within a single week with no linkage to any other weeks in order to capture the downstream consequences of the immediate effects.
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Kennedy recently urged Massachusetts officials to change a law to allow for an immediate temporary replacement should a vacancy occur for one of his state's two Senate seats.
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These people both continuously experience the flow of things in a direct and immediate way, yet they retain a powerful detachment that allows them to adjust and refine what they are doing.
He was also aware of a more immediate risk in those cold-war days: a smaller visitor (such as the one that had exploded over Siberia in 1908, flattening 2, 000 square miles of forest) might be mistaken by either superpower for a nuclear detonation and trigger Armageddon.
And a pool of companies are introducing their spin on the idea of pooled savings as a way to effectively change behavior and provide immediate benefits of stuffing a little dough away.
But studies have shown that women who undergo immediate reconstruction following a mastectomy benefit psychologically.
"We're not faced with an immediate need for a supplemental, " agreed Rep. David Price, D-N.
Television will see the most immediate impact of a strike, with late night programs hit first.
There is, however, some real potential for immediate damage as a result of this Congressional failure.
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MSPs were forced to rush through emergency legislation giving criminal suspects immediate access to a lawyer.
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