Word: coaxings
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...technique was almost identical to Wilmut's except for two key steps. First, instead of using electric shocks to coax an adult cell into merging with a host egg whose nucleus had been removed, Wakayama injected just the adult nucleus into a nucleus-free host. And second, he let the hybrid cell sit for up to six hours before stimulating it to start dividing...
...protect the wealth amassed by Suharto's family during his 30-year reign. The news comes as no surprise. "Suharto would not have stepped down without cutting a deal to protect his family's wealth," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The military gave him certain guarantees to coax him out of power." But the thousands of Indonesians who fought for the dictator's ouster continue to demand that his wealth be turned over to the nation. So, in true horror movie fashion, the worst may be yet to come...
...Still, Lee did spectacularly well -- not only in beating off the kowtowing Liberal Party, but helping to coax out three times the expected number of voters. Now Lee is pressing his moral mandate hard: "We will do our best to push for full democracy in the next elections in the year 2000," he told the South China Morning Post. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa is unlikely to budge from the Basic Law blueprint -- that is, eight years till full democracy. Tung isn't in any hurry -- and no wonder. In most democracies, he'd be out of a job today...
...position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began to unravel. To the relief of everyone from doctors on call to crack dealers, some pager service was restored early this morning by using other satellites. The rest of us wait, meanwhile, as PanAmSat technicians try to coax the wayward Galaxy 4 back into position...
BELFAST: The ayes have it, British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted Thursday in his bid to coax voters to deliver a resounding 'yes' on the Irish peace accord in Friday's referendum. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand reports that anxiety over a "no" vote had increased after the initial euphoria over the deal gave way to mounting fear in the Protestant community -- spooked by the dire warnings of rejectionists -- that the early release of convicted IRA terrorists would set killers loose among them. Blair was at pains to reassure voters today to stress that parties committed to violence would...