Word: certain
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...agree, for the first time noticing that his mouth is desperately low on teeth. But it's too late, because he's already spotted my Cambridge University T-shirt, and this gives him the appropriate lead-in to a whole series of remarks: He tells me he's almost certain John Harvard was a Cambridge man, and then surprises me by navigating through the entire story of Mr. Harvard's immortalizing donation to a tiny Massachusetts college...
...protective privilege" argument because uniformed officers don't stick as close to the President as the body men in the "protective detail," and therefore may not require the same legal privileges. But Starr is unlikely to keep his hunt narrow; if Johnson rules in his favor, he is certain to work his way up the Secret Service chain of command...
Apart from certain omissions, there was nothing factually inaccurate in what Kolata wrote. Folkman, in his statements, went out of his way to downplay his findings. But his carefully cautionary tone was completely overshadowed by the quotes Kolata attributed to a host of other scientists and the adjectives they used to describe Folkman's work. His results were "remarkable," "exciting" and "wonderful." Dr. James Pluda of the National Cancer Institute said he and his colleagues were "electrified" and "almost overwhelmed" by the data...
...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Dr. Mark Malkin is working with a substance that targets a receptor for another growth factor called PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor). This receptor studs the surfaces of cells in certain ovarian, prostate, lung and brain tumors. Malkin has been testing the drug, SU101, on patients with an extraordinarily deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma. Median survival for a patient found to have this cancer is 14 months...
JAMES LAMB, president of Spink America, coin subsidiary of Christie's New York: "The French franc has been a well-designed and elegant little coinage that's always had a certain class...