Much as the chancellor and the Bank's governor might deny it, the Bank will be engaged in the highly political task of choosing how many jobs to sacrifice in order to hit the inflation target quickly rather than slowly.

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Of the Kiwi batsmen only Oram really came to terms with the task and New Zealand would have fallen considerably more than 32 runs shy of their target had it no been for his efforts.

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Crooke's first task, an arduous one, was to find out how big the drug should be to best target RNA. RNA strands stretch thousands of nucleotides long, and there may be only one offender out of 100, 000 different strands floating in a cell at any given time.

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