Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like that. "It" can't be turned on and off like a light switch. "It" is more like a nuclear reactor--a long buildup to full power and a longer slide to shutdown. Anything goes wrong, and it's bad news...
Free radical levels in neurons may be especially high because the cells do not divide. Brown said, allowing for buildup of reaction products...
Recall, for instance, the demonstration that took place in a Riyadh supermarket during the buildup to the Gulf War in November 1990, when seventy women from prominent Saudi families dismissed their chauffeurs and drove by themselves in protest of the driving restrictions...
...large buildup of fat-soluble vitamins, which are poorly excreted by the kidneys, can produce toxic effects. According to Willett, vitamin D can cause seizuers and death if taken in extreme excess, and vitamin A and cause liver problems...
...buildup to astronomical apocalypse grows ever more dramatic. At the American Geophysical Union's meeting in San Francisco, some respected researchers suggested that a large space rock 10 to 20 km (6 to 12 miles) in diameter slammed into the earth 250 million years ago and set whole continents adrift. The announcement by Michael Rampino of New York University and Verne Oberbeck of NASA-Ames Research Center stunned fellow scientists, though many dismissed it out of hand. Some skepticism seemed warranted. Rampino and Oberbeck rely heavily on their supposition that certain rocks -- known as tillites and long thought...