Word: answering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days before Sisler started, Bruno took him to lunch. He then asked a question that had somehow not occurred to him before: How old are you, anyway? Bruno was floored by the answer. Don't tell anyone, the bank chief warned. Sisler's youth could embarrass co-workers and, worse, anger Bergen's board...
...fail us? Gun-rights supporters rightly point out that one of the charges against Buford Furrow was illegal possession of a firearm. Illegal, signifying that enforcement, not legislation, is the answer to keeping the rage of the crazies impotent. The police? At his press conference Wednesday, L.A. police Chief Bernard Parks resisted all his political urges and declared that martial law was not coming to the City of Angels. The "community" of Los Angeles, he hoped, would find a way to heal without a cop on every corner. The courts? Furrows had served his time for his confused knife-wielding...
...which researchers developed a computer program that can collate the results of two non-invasive procedures carried out a month apart to more accurately establish the presence of Down's syndrome. Although neither a first trimester blood test and ultrasound nor a second trimester blood test offers a definitive answer, a team of British researchers found that by correlating the results with their program they were able to identify 85 percent of Down's syndrome cases with only a 1 percent false positive rate. Amniocentesis provides a definitive answer, but the procedure involves withdrawing fluid from the fetal sac using...
...medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "But among women who might abort rather than give birth to a Down's syndrome baby, if a first-trimester test contains a warning sign, most would be unlikely to want to go through the agony of waiting until the second trimester for a definitive answer. This study contains some interesting clinical observations, but unfortunately what it really shows is that there?s still no conclusive non-invasive test for Down's syndrome...
...very professional air force, this is unlikely to have been the action of a trigger-happy pilot ? orders would have likely come from above, and that raises questions about what lay behind this incident." But right now, the tense atmosphere between the two countries may preclude an early answer...