Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential benefits of altered animals -- disease-resistant pigs, fast-growing cows and the like. Medical researchers are already using engineered mice to study the mechanics of cancer and heart disease. But genetic engineering is a process that involves many difficult steps, and the new breakthrough will at best simplify just one of them...
...very best part about campaign contributions is that they don't have to be spent on campaigns. Colorado's Democratic Senator Tim Wirth used his campaign fund to fly himself and his wife to the 1987 Super Bowl. Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii used $14,053 for restaurant meals -- some of which, according to receipts submitted, curiously took place at Circuit City, an electronics-equipment store. North Carolina's Democratic Congressman Charles Rose bought a Jeep. South Dakota's Democratic Senator Larry Pressler had a Canada goose stuffed for $225.75, because he felt it would promote goose hunting...
...people change during the course of life, often swapping roles with intimates: the exuberant pioneer gradually becomes a timid drudge, while her starry-eyed friend hardens into an adventurer. The final scenes do too much too fast and too vaguely. But the script has the makings of Henley's best work since her stunning debut in Crimes of the Heart...
Minamata is precisely the sort of piece New Yorkers expect to find only in New York. There are no plans to take it there, and that is too bad. Yet maybe the best measure of the health of the American theater is that now New Yorkers, too, have to travel to see the full range of what American creators have to offer...
...group's influence is often treacherous. Explains young Edwards: "It's peer pressure and wanting to be accepted by your friends and trying to prove yourself in the best way you know how, which is being violent." Gangs allow even the most cowardly and impotent to feel brave and powerful. And they override inhibitions and diminish any feelings of guilt. Violence becomes contagious. Some youngsters revel in the mayhem; others, too weak to break away, become trapped and are swept along...