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  • Here's his original review, a bit of book trailer intelligence: Obviate distribution costs, capitalize on Web video's cachet and circumvent the online video advertising hoi polloi by creating a series that is, effectively, a very long advertisement.

    Publishing Spotted: Book Trailer Bonanza 2008

  • [2008 / 11 / 06 20: 09] Kaio Obviate: yea, it hearts us all: /

    World of SL 2008

  • Unfortunately, those political considerations seem to have motivated much of the reporting on these new discoveries -- even though one of the scientists who discovered the new technology, Shinya Yamanaka, felt so strongly that his work did not pre-empt other kinds of stem cell research that he co-authored a letter with several colleagues published in the journal Cell Stem Cell titled "New Advances in IPS Cell Research Do Not Obviate the Need for Human Embryonic Stem Cells."

    Susan L. Solomon: The Stem Cell Wars Are Not Over 2008

  • The Stag did All that was to be done here; but the Wayes and Workings of Providence are unfearchable; and it is not in the Power of Humane Pru - dence to Obviate all the Accidents of Humane Life.

    Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692

  • 'Tis Highly Improvident not to Obviate fmall Things; and as Ridiculous to be Baffled by them; and it is not the Force neither, but the Importunity that is fo Vexatious and Troubleibm to us.

    Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692

  • So that in the Publijhing of thefe Papers, I have done my Befl to Obviate a Common Inconvenience, or, to fpeak Plainly, the Mortal Error of pretending to Eretl a Building upon a Falfe Foundation: Leaving the whole World to take the fame Freedom with Me, that I have done with Others: Provided that they do not Impute the Faults, and the Mif Pointings of the Prefs, to the Author, and that they Confult the Errata for other Miftakes.

    Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692

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