Word: alphabetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...destroying disease is caused by two distinct viruses, known as A and B. But many patients show no signs of having been exposed to either virus. Earlier this year scientists took a significant step toward solving the riddle of non-A, non-B hepatitis by moving on down the alphabet. They identified a third virus that produces hepatitis and called it type C. Last week researchers announced another milestone: the first effective therapy for hepatitis...
...cancer. That toll may be cut by interferon. But doctors warn that the mystery of non-A, non-B hepatitis may not be completely resolved. Type C virus could account for most of these cases, but there is evidence that yet another blood-borne virus will extend the hepatitis alphabet still further...
...relative merits of such systems as OS/2 and UNIX. The same goes for the rivalry between the two fastest chips, the Intel 80486 and the Motorola 68040. "The industry is so busy talking inside baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this alphabet soup," says James Morris, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In many cases, he says, customers are postponing purchases until one format emerges dominant, the way VHS surpassed Beta as a videocassette standard...
...officer asks the man to perform field sobriety tests. The officer drops a pen and asks the man to pick it up. He also asks the man to say the alphabet backwards. The officer decides to call the police wagon and, when it arrives, the driver involved with the accident is handcuffed, put in the back and transported to the Cambridge police station in Central Square...
While our parents reminisced about the Beaver and Pinky Lee, we spoke of rubber duckies, talking frogs and furry, blue monsters. We sang about the alphabet, laughed like Ernie and made fun of Bert's passion for pigeons. For an hour every afternoon, from age two to eight, we sat in front of a television. Life...