Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, the MBC expanded its annual meeting at the World Trade Center to a two-day conference of biotechnology business seminars, a science symposium focusing on drug design and nucleic acid-based therapy and a trade exposition by over 150 companies featuring the latest in biotechnology and related products...
Those are still the characteristics of virtually all the world's electric vehicles, which are powered by cumbersome battery systems. The traditional lead-and-acid batteries require 100 times the weight and 30 times the space of conventional gasoline tanks to push even the lightest cars a fraction of the distance -- less than 100 miles at 25 m.p.h. Nickel-cadmium batteries provide 50% more power but at eight times the price (around $30,000, replaceable every two or three years). Sodium-sulphur batteries offer three times the energy but run both hot (at temperatures of 600 degrees F) and volatile...
...ripped-from-the-headlines docudramas it pokes fun at. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile, The Candidate) and screenwriter Jane Anderson (The Baby Dance) don't lampoon the genre; they merely strip it of the solemn sensationalism that TV usually lavishes on these seedy tales. What's left is acid black comedy...
TELEVISIONA A tabloid tale redone as acid black comedy...
...shall rest my head between two worlds, in the Valley of the Vanquished." That is where we all live, suspended between childhood and its haunting afterimage. Hollywood wants us to think of youth as a ripping yarn, where every adventure has a happy ending. Leolo sees childhood as the acid test for maturity...