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had more firmly settled on were the earlier dates.
DR. SHAPIRO: Carol?
DR. GREIDER: I would like to address the issue
of the February 6th meeting. I feel like at least for the
Genetics Subcommittee there are a number of issues where we
have put off discussing substantive components of putting
in specific recommendations in specific boxes in our matrix
that we really have to discuss before we can write a
report. We do not have the substance yet of a number of
those important issues and so I think foregoing a meeting
at this point would not be productive because we cannot be
doing work in the meantime to write up our reports if we do
not have the answers to what we are going to recommend.
DR. SHAPIRO: Let me -- let's not try to
resolve this sitting here right now but we will over the
next day's interaction with members of the committee and
the subcommittees decide specifically about the February
meeting. We may do everything from have a full commission
meeting or if that does not seem desirable and it does seem
desirable for the genetics group to get there then we might
have that. We might cancel both depending on what is
decided and go to March.
We cannot avoid dealing with the question that
you have raised obviously but let's not try to settle this