Word: abruptly
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...federally funded U.S. project, led by the National Institutes of Health, has mounted a campaign to patent each DNA fragment that its researchers can reproduce, even before its usefulness is determined. The policy has been heavily criticized within scientific circles and figured in the abrupt resignation last spring of Nobel-prizewinning geneticist James Watson as head of the Genome Project. Cohen speaks for many critics when he names the two big problems with the NIH approach: "The first is moral. You can't patent something that belongs to everyone. It's like trying to patent the stars. The second...
...police commissioner were to leave, it would be an abrupt departure, it would be an abrupt departure. Anderson came to Cambridge in 1991 from Miami, where he was police chief. He was a 21-year veteran of the Miami department...
...from photographs -- whether specially taken for the painting or clipped from the press -- produced some of Sickert's most engrossing images. Among them are his 1929 portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole and The Miner, circa 1935: a man just out of the pit, fiercely kissing his wife, an abrupt and passionate painting imbued with sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby like...
...truths here are that life is uphill and that cheerfulness makes the climb easier. These are bromides familiar from many a TV disease-of-the-week movie, and Sayles takes his sweet time mixing them. The film consumes two hours plus, yet the ending seems abrupt, as if Act III was left off. It has the feel of a short story that went on too long...
...approves of hanging drug dealers and locking up gangsters without trial. He has struck a simple social contract, accepting limits on personal freedom in return for prosperity and stability. What holds the deal together is the country's lack of corruption. When officials say some policy, no matter how abrupt or painful, is for the public good, people usually believe them...