Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barzani has long enjoyed aid from his Kurdish brethren in Iran. The mountainous frontier is not only impossible to police, but the Teheran government-anxious to avoid open revolt among its own 3,000,000 Kurds-has not strained itself trying. Last month Iraqi troops, opening yet another "offensive" against "Barzani's gang," pursued Kurdish rebels across the ill-defined border into Iran, while Iraqi MIG jets strafed Kurds in villages on the Iranian side. Iran charged that a 150-man Iraqi force shelled the Iranian village of Tang-e-Hammam, executed two captured Iranian gendarmes, and hacked their...
...avoid public controversy, Dr. Masters published nothing for five years, then reported his first findings in the relatively obscure Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology...
...boosting the supply of RNA, and hit upon a seemingly harmless chemical, magnesium pemoline (tradenamed Cylert), which increases RNA synthesis twofold or threefold. Working with Dr. Nicholas P. Plotnikoff, the researchers put Cylert in rat feed, then placed the animals in a chamber where they had to learn to avoid an electric shock. Rats on Cylert learned after only two or three trials; rats with no Cylert took eight to ten trials. Moreover, the Cylert rats remembered their lesson as long as six months, while untreated rats forgot it within a few days...
...suggests that RNA extracted from the brains of trained animals can be used to accelerate learning when injected into untrained animals. Converse evidence that chemicals are involved in forgetting came from the University of Michigan's Dr. Bernard W. Agranoff, who reported that trained goldfish forgot how to avoid a shock, and untrained fish did not learn as well after injections of the antibiotic puromycin...
...long-neglected wealth in natural resources, and so reduce its heavy dependence on coffee for export income. In a similar 51%-49% joint venture with Bethlehem Steel, he has not only built one of the world's most successful manganese mining operations, but has managed to avoid the attacks that Brazilian nationalists have made on other foreign interests. By pushing iron-ore exports, Antunes expects Brazil in time to earn enough abroad to import coal, and so become one of the world's major producers of steel...