Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some may scour campus for more popular items like the "VCR and couch at a cheap price" that Ariel B. Osceola '00 craves, students can also find less-common items on sale...
...billion on R. and D. every year. Much of the money that goes into research on, say, safety or fuel-cell technology can be put under one umbrella for savings. Economies can also be extracted from joint purchases of raw materials. "Daimler and Chrysler will maximize the number of common parts they're using for their cars," says Christian Breitsprecher, a Dusseldorf-based industry analyst. "Engines, engine control systems, transmissions, door locks, seats--you name it." As Eaton insisted to TIME, "There's $100 million of savings the first year on current product...
Other drug companies are targeting another common cancer gene: one that codes for a protein called the EGF (epidermal growth factor) receptor. This receptor, which takes in growth signals and relays them to the RAS protein, is found in abnormally high numbers on the surface of about 40% of tumor cells, including about 90% of lung-cancer tumors, some prostate tumors and other malignancies. Researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are testing an antibody to EGF receptors in patients with advanced head and neck cancers. But most other groups, including teams at drug makers Pfizer, Novartis and Zeneca...
...rapidly than deep-seated human tumors. Also, as Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop observes, too much breeding isn't always a good thing. In his labs at the University of California, San Francisco, he is genetically altering mice to provide better models for studying leukemia and neuroblastoma, the most common tumor in children under 3. But genetic alterations can go only so far. "How similar the mouse is to man," he concedes, "is still a legitimate issue...
...side. Among them are Mrs. Clinton and Sandy Berger, the White House National Security Adviser, along with David Blunkett, Blair's Secretary of State for Education and Employment, and Peter Mandelson, his strategist and closest political adviser. "It's a chance to examine the basic principles we have in common, to sharpen our thinking and to talk about common pitfalls," says a participant...