Word: agent
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...drug, an integrase inhibitor from Merck, aims to tackle HIV where it hurts the most - by blocking the integrase enzyme, which the virus uses to insert its genes into a host cell's genome and hijack the machinery to churn out more copies of itself. Called isentress, the experimental agent helped 75% of patients reduce their viral load of HIV to acceptable levels, compared with only 40% of patients given placebo...
...when his son was reprimanded by his Senior Tutor for participating in a protest of Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of the chemical Agent Orange, used by the military in Vietnam, Schlesinger directed his activism against Harvard...
Although Siniora welcomes U.S. support, he bristles at opposition taunts that he is America's agent, in part because his relationship with Washington is not always an easy one. Apart from criticizing what he terms Washington's "one-sided" support for Israel, Siniora became angry during the Israel-Hizballah war last summer when the Bush Administration rebuffed Siniora's expectation that the U.S. would support an immediate cease-fire. He calls Israel "a killing machine" that used Hizballah's capture of two Israeli soldiers as a "pretext" to re-occupy Lebanon. Though opponents mocked Siniora for kissing Secretary of State...
...when his son was reprimanded by his Senior Tutor for participating in a protest of Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of the chemical Agent Orange, used by the military in Vietnam, Schlesinger directed his activism against Harvard...
...week.” I’m constantly on call. If I had to highlight one activity that represented the job, it’d be responding to e-mails. I’d wake up in the morning to 30 e-mails from the Pudding travel agent, publicists, and venues. I had to make sure the after-party went smoothly, the lunch, the dinner, and making sure we had venues for those. In that sense, it was an odd job because it encompasses so many things...