Word: blanketted
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...failure to convince the administration to institute a blanket, campus-wide policy on UKA changed the focus of the council's lobbying efforts...
Whether genes or proteins are used, the goal is the same, to blanket the heart with lots of little blood vessels. (Surprisingly, you can reach more of the heart muscle with a lot of little blood vessels than with a few big ones.) But that presents another problem. The blood vessels are so small that they are impossible to see even with today's highest-resolution heart scans...
Call out the medics! The issue of health care is shaping up to be the bloody main battleground between Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley. On Monday Bradley, in a speech to the American Public Health Association, outlined his proposal to blanket 95 percent of the population with health care coverage. Bradley claims his plan will cost $500 to $650 billion over 10 years, and can be easily paid for out of the $1 trillion in expected budget surpluses in that period. At the same time, he dug into Gore as showing a lack of guts...
...physics decree that the planet has to radiate the same amount of energy back into space to keep the books balanced. The earth does this by sending infrared radiation out through the atmosphere, where an array of molecules (the best known is carbon dioxide) form a kind of blanket, holding outgoing radiation for a while and warming the surface. The molecules are similar to the glass in a greenhouse, which is why the warming process is called the greenhouse effect...
Washington had previously been skeptical of European initiatives, such as the plan to provide heating oil to cities controlled by the opposition, but now appears to have come around to a more subtle approach. "The blanket isolation of Serbia was only ever going to freeze the situation Iraq-style and actually consolidate Milosevic's grip on power," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The new approach gives the opposition much greater leverage - by dangling an end to sanctions - to force a free and fair election. And if the opposition doesn't participate in an election...