Word: advent
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Even before the first prototype of the B-1 flew in 1974, critics charged that the advent of cruise missiles had made manned bombers less important. In addition, cruise missiles capable of being launched from the B-52 extended the effectiveness of that 32-year-old bomber. In 1977 President Carter canceled the B-1 project...
...advent of genetic engineering in the 1970s made such tedious work obsolete. Using methods for dissecting molecules, the two groups of researchers reporting in Science were able to identify the specific antigen, found on the surface of the sporozoite, that is responsible for producing immunity to this stage of the parasite, and they were able to unravel part of the chemical structure of the antigen. To their surprise, it was quite simple. So simple, says Victor Nussenzweig, "that it can be very easily synthesized using plain, old-fashioned chemistry." Nonetheless, a vaccine based on the antigen still faces...
...Danville, Pa. A Penn State engineering student who was rejected by the college glee club, he formed his first band (a jazz quartet) in 1917, eventually adding voices and more instruments. Between its 1933 debut and 1949, it presented one of radio's most popular shows; the advent of rock dimmed its luster, however, and in the years before Waring's official 1980 retirement the size of both the group and its audiences shrank. On the side, in 1937, Waring used his tinkering skills to perfect, patent and market his Blendor, one of the first food processors, which...
...more than a dozen years, spanning four Administrations from the late '60s until the advent of the Reagan Administration in 1981, the mechanism for keeping the competition under some measure of control was SALT, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. While the arms race continued, SALT produced a series of pacts that established rules of the road: the 1972 SALT I accords, one of which severely limited antiballistic missile (ABM) defenses, and an accompanying "interim agreement" that capped the number of missile launchers (underground silos for ICBMS and tubes for SLBMS) allowed on each side; and the more comprehensive SALT...
...racial integration when the cause was not all that popular. He was one of the sponsors of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and introduced fair housing legislation in 1967 and 1968. And then in the early '70s--as the idea of civil rights took a beating with the advent of the anti-busing movement--Mondale chaired a Senate Committee that pushed for new aid for school desegregation, Mondale was also one of the original writers of Medicaid legislation, and he helped create the Legal Services Corporation, which Reagan has since tried...