Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman got acquainted with Silverman years ago when she was an IBM vice president for communications and Government relations. She worked with Silverman, who was then at CBS, in handling IBM's debut as a television sponsor. "They complement each another," says M.S. Rukeyser Jr., an NBC executive vice president. "She's an expert in things like Government relations that he doesn't know very much about." An other intriguing question will be whether Pfeiffer's marriage will become a duet of corporate chiefs. Her husband, Ralph, 51, senior vice president and chief executive in charge...
Chafin plans to correct some of the present policies at the HUPD, in what he calls an effort to realize the full potential of the department's personnel and other resources. He is pleased, he says, with the complement of personnel in the department, especially the extent of experience and technical training of many of its members. He is also impressed by what he sees as the members' eagerness to develop supervisory, investigative and human relations skills...
...which constitutes the northern flank of NATO and is a key Western listening post for monitoring Russian military intentions. About three times a month, Soviet reconnaissance planes take aim at Norway's Finnmark province, which abuts Russia's Kola Peninsula with its strategic naval bases and 900,000-member complement of Communist ground and air forces. The spy planes turn back only when challenged by NATO interceptors. At least twice a year, large-scale Soviet naval exercises are held off the Norwegian coast. Soviet submarines, based at Murmansk, glide into Norway's deep fjords. All but one of the latest...
...into a swarm of tailed sperm that have managed, like salmon battling upstream, to fight their way into this passageway. In a dramatic headlong plunge, a single sperm will penetrate the waiting ovum's outer layer, its 23 chromosomes joining the egg's 23. That produces the full complement of 46 chromosomes, which contain all the genetic instructions necessary to produce a complete human being...
...sperm have not yet mixed; the mother's and father's genes are still in two distinct sacs, called pronuclei. Using microsurgery, Markert removes either pronucleus. The egg is then exposed to a chemical that causes the remaining pronucleus to replicate, thus giving the cell a full complement of genes. Then the cell itself divides, and the resulting embryo is placed in the uterus of a female mouse to develop. Using this technique, Biologist Peter C. Hoppe of Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., and Swiss Microsurgeon Karl Illmensee have produced seven mice, all females. (Males cannot...