Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is actually happening is not an American bug-out at all, but an on-the-scene retrenchment process that European firms are also undergoing. But because the American companies are so large and visible, their pruning is getting much attention. In fact, the U.S. business presence in Europe remains huge. Last year American firms rang up more than $220 billion in sales, accounting for fully 10% of all European manufacturing activity...
...state that the oppression of American women is "no less real" (Dec. 5, 1978) than the oppression of black South Africans, is to claim that the lightning bug is no less real than lightning...
...comes word that should really bug the True Believers. In a report in the journal Applied Optics, two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists offer an earthly explanation not only for the Utah UFOS but possibly for many others as well. Reading Salisbury's book, Entomologist Philip S. Callahan and his associate, R.W. Mankin, were struck by the similarity between the movements of the UFOS and the actions of insect swarms. Their conclusion, after some painstaking research: the Utah objects were probably moths known as spruce budworms, illuminated by a common atmospheric phenomenon known as St. Elmo's fire...
...subject, Palmer turned to Typhoeus typhoeus, commonly known as the minotaur beetle. Barely larger than a pebble, this long, shiny black bug is found throughout sandy areas of Europe, where it feeds mainly on rabbit, sheep or deer droppings. It is named for its three distinct horns-two large ones separated by a smaller one-that project threateningly from the male of the species...
...those applications - the recombinant DNA technique - has begun to fulfill its widely her alded promise. By inserting genes into the DNA of a laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium E. coli, re searchers have induced the little bug to produce somatostatin, a mammalian brain hormone. Last month the bacterium manufactured synthetic human insulin, raising hopes that the hormone vital to the well-being of the world's diabetics may some day soon be available in virtually unlimited supply...