Word: advent
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...rapid policy changes are a response to the longstanding problem of ID card security, recently aggravated by the advent of Crimson Cash and the opening of Loker Commons, according to Berry...
...That is what we are doing now. That is what we have done in the past--well before the advent of affirmative action programs in the late 1960s...
...edict from the dining authorities, handed down just before the semester began, states that any person without an ID will not be admitted to meals. The rationale is to protect the cards, suddenly made more precious than gold by the advent of Crimson Cash...
...digs are only half the story, however. The advent of "Crimson Cash"--a $75 credit ($100 with the $25 in guest meals) applied to the ID card of every student on the board plan, good for purchases made at Loker, the Greenhouse and several other campus restaurants--is a remarkable plan that encourages students to visit these places and offers a new kind of flexibility in our meal plans. The arrival of liquidity in Harvard's board charge should be the first step towards changing the entire sum to multi-use credit. Crimson Cash is just another unexpected and delightful...
...advent of genetic engineering, among other things, has allowed researchers to begin breaching that natural barrier. Last spring scientists at Duke University Medical Center reported that they had successfully altered the genetic makeup of a strain of pigs. As a result, the researchers managed to fool the immune systems of three baboons into accepting pig hearts, for a short while at least. Using a similar technique, the British biotechnology company Imutran has produced a herd of 300 genetically altered swine. The company expects to transplant either a pig's heart or a liver into a human subject later this year...