When Celera was created, in May 1998, the leaders of the Human Genome Project were talking vaguely of completion in 2003.

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Labour, for its part, has been talking tougher, if still vaguely, about the cuts it would implement thereafter.

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For most of my career, I tried to avoid the topic of being a woman in business, vaguely concerned that talking too much about it would hold me back in some way.

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