So the last step on the winding road was the creation of a bacterial strain without any restriction-enzyme genes, and thus without restriction enzymes, so that the team could have a purified reaction vessel in which the new genome could do its thing.

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Starting with the informal summit this week, it is time for the next step down the long and winding road to joint and several liability of eurozone debt.

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Yet I am sure my kids would not be ready to step up and do the job of winding up all our affairs if I left this life without warning, as Bruce just did.

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The final step is to do away with the spring altogether, and charge the battery direct from the winding action.

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Winding up the debate Economic Secretary Justine Greening said the bill was a "key step towards making payments which hadn't been paid under the last administration".

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