Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schools. "High priority should be given the school construction bill," and it should be enacted "uncomplicated by provisions dealing with the complex problems of integration," e.g., the Powell amendment, which helped kill off the school construction bill in the last session...
...gland that calls forth Magnus Andersen's specialized skill is the pituitary, whose function was unknown in Melville's day. Today medicine knows the pituitary as a master gland in the body's complex and delicately balanced hormonal system; it secretes, among others, the master hormone ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), which regulates activity of the adrenal glands astride the kidneys...
...first violinist did not always play second fiddle to the conductor. In the small 18th century ensembles, the other musicians often took their lead from the first violin, but growing orchestras, complex scores and the public's demand for a good show have made the conductor virtually irreplaceable. Still, the concertmaster has far more to do with running the orchestra than meets...
...Tenets. The President, appearing on TV as well as in the House Chamber, began by explaining the long-term tenets of U.S. policy in the complex, tense and oil-rich Middle East, "the crossroads of the continents of the Eastern Hemisphere." Ever since World War I, said he, the U.S. has welcomed and encouraged the growth of newly independent nations; now the U.S. supports the sovereignty and independence "of each and every nation in the Middle East...
Dozens of chemically complex enzymes serve the body as catalysts, usually in minute quantities. In disease, the relative concentration of some enzymes increases. After a heart attack, Dr. Wróblewski points out, there is a rise in several enzymes, including serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGO-T) and lactic dehydrogenase (SLD). Liver diseases cause release into the blood of SGO-T and glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGP-T). Careful and repeated measuring of several enzymes can pinpoint disease in a particular organ. Examples: a high level of SGO-T, without elevation in SGP-T, gave an index of President Eisenhower...