The opinion of Benedict Nightingale in The Times set the general reaction to Hall's stage efforts.

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So, I think we should make an effort to have a real discussion and not just a knee-jerk reaction when some of us say that the comedy stage has no place for sexism, racism and homophobia.

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We should remember, however, that favorable reaction to corporate earnings announcements helped small-cap stocks stage a nice rally in late April last year.

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In the second stage, lactic-acid molecules are linked into long chains, or polymers, in chemical-reaction vessels, to produce PLA. What Dr Lee and his colleagues have succeeded in doing, as they report in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, is to produce PLA directly, in a one-stage process, in bacteria.

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