Word: catalystic
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...Administration, which is in the long run responsible for this sense of community isolation, has made some attempt to alleviate the housing situation in Riverside. The Wilson Report stated two years ago that the University should act as the catalyst in procuring land, a developer, and federal funds for low-income housing. To this end, it has begun construction of 120 units for the elderly at the corner of Mt. Auburn Street and Putnam Ave., and is well along in the plans for 80-100 units of low-income housing at the Howard Street site. And while the Blair Pond...
...Virtue. The rest of the story deserves not to be summarized. It is enough to say that it is wholly absorbing, and leads Ramsay to comprehension of his own nature-which is not saintly. Nor is it his nature, as he once thought, to play "Fifth Business"-a special catalyst's role, as the author explains, not hero or heroine, confidant or villain, but "nonetheless essential to bring about the recognition or the denouement, in drama and opera companies organized according to the old style." Ramsay, the eccentric schoolmaster, has played this role in the lives of friends...
Last summer Temin and other molecular biologists produced strong experimental evidence that RNA viruses may indeed be capable of producing their own DNA (TIME, July 20). Columbia University's Sol Spiegelman confirmed it. He demonstrated how an enzyme, or natural chemical catalyst, can cause tumors in laboratory animals by a DNA-RNA reversal. As Temin had postulated, the enzyme turned out to be RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. But a question remained: Was the same enzyme also present in human cancer...
...nearly as a Beatle could, George Harrison led the life of an invisible man. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were hailed as genius pop composers. Ringo Starr, the catalyst who served as a human buffer between conflicting egos, was constantly stirring affectionate chuckles. George was the quiet, apparently dependent...
...housing project proposed for the Blair Pond site came about as a result of the University's Wilson Report issued two years ago. The report stated that Harvard should act as the catalyst in the construction of low and moderate-income housing in the Cambridge community...