Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appreciate what the New York Times headlined New Misstatements, flash back to Mrs. Clinton's April 22 press conference. During most of that session, journalists sought to understand how a novice makes a bundle in the commodities market. The most benign spin on the First Lady's explanation that day is that she had an expert for a friend, although even that seemingly harmless tale refuted the initial story, which attributed Mrs. Clinton's success to her perusal of the Wall Street Journal...
...published a book on problems of the breast titled The Breast: Its Problems Benign and Malignant and How to Deal with Them...
...case of colon cancer, Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his colleagues at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Oncology Center have shown that a cell must sustain damage to at least three tumor-suppressor genes and one oncogene. The first mutation spurs the growth of the cell, triggering the formation of a benign polyp. Later changes cause the polyp to expand and become increasingly irregular in shape. By the time a cell in this growing mass suffers a final, fateful hit to its DNA, many decades may have gone...
...poorly policed borders and potentially staggering profits provide both opportunity and incentive for illegal trading. Many hustlers in Moscow brazenly offer to sell small quantities of what they claim to be spent nuclear fuel stolen from production facilities. Often the ingredients these scam artists pass off as "samples" are benign substances, like cesium 137 and low-enriched uranium, that cannot be used to make a bomb. But no one doubts that a market for the real stuff exists. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, membership in the world's nuclear club requires only 55 lbs. of highly enriched uranium...
...campus hiding? A conversation I had with Facilities Maintenance a few years ago informed me that Harvard conducts only "spot treatments" of herbicides and pesticides. We need to ask ourselves if an occasional weed is that much of a threat. The "green stuff" sprayed each year contains an apparently benign mix of seed, fertilizer, fiber and food coloring (the reason it's green). Is the coloring really necessary? Are any of us fooled by this camouflage? Do we know what our lawn care products are doing to our area? Rain washes many of these chemicals off the lawn. Last August...