Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your checkbook ready? Put it back in your pocket, big shot: Unless you've already mailed in your financial statements proving you have at least $100,000 to drop on a slightly used Spalding, Guernsey's doesn't want to hear from you. Still, you can watch the action online, which at these prices is probably the safest thing...
...newcomer Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy, and the long-awaited Futurama, from Simpsons creator Matt Groening. "People expect us to be different," says Mike Darnell, the wire-haired programming impresario responsible for Fox's "shockumentaries" (World's Deadliest Swarms, When Good Pets Go Bad). "They can find live-action sitcoms everywhere else. They don't have to come here for them...
...complicated tax that targets folks who avoid most traditional income taxes through large credits and deductions. High earners in high-tax states are most vulnerable, but anyone taking a large deduction for business expenses can fall victim. Tip: consult a pro. Avoiding the AMT may call for such radical action as accelerating income and deferring deductions, which is precisely the opposite of normal strategy...
That was fine with Venter, since the strips of DNA that are actually being used as blueprints for constructing a protein are where the action is. So Venter decided to concentrate on these active parts. He focused on the so-called messenger RNA, or mRNA, which ferries instructions from DNA over to the cell's protein-making machinery. This is the essence of the gene, and it was these stripped-down genetic instructions--copied into a more stable form known as cDNA--that he fed into an automated gene sequencer he'd acquired...
...date draws near, some custodians of San Francisco's landmarks are having second thoughts about being the theater of action for the four-day exercise, and last week the Presidio, a national park near the Golden Gate Bridge, withdrew permission to use its Baker Beach as a landing site. Something about 400 Marines storming up the shore with 20 five-ton trucks and two dozen 14-ton assault vehicles, and then engaging in pitched battle -- albeit simulated -- on the grounds didn't jibe with the Presidio's more family-oriented mandate as a national park. Undaunted, the best and bravest...