Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest study a team of Finnish scientists reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute last week that MX, a compound produced when chlorine reacts with organic material in water, causes cancer in laboratory rats when swallowed in large quantities. "Although these findings cannot be extrapolated to humans," they concluded, "MX should be studied as a candidate risk factor...
DIED. KAREN WETTERHAHN, 48, chemistry professor at Dartmouth College who studied how toxic metals inhibit DNA repair; of poisoning, months after two drops of the rare compound dimethylmercury spilled onto her latex gloves; in Lebanon...
...GREEN TEA Researchers have found the component in the tea that may help prevent cancer. The compound ECGC seems to inhibit the activity of an enzyme that breaks down healthy tissue...
...company's net income triple from 1994 to 1995, the year before Kimberly-Clark sold the airline. Net income grew by more than 12% in 1996, to around $20 million. Midwest now flies to 23 cities in the U.S. and Canada from hubs in Milwaukee and Omaha, Neb. Compound annual growth has averaged about 20% over the past five years--significantly better than that of most other airlines. Now Hoeksema plans a third hub--location to be announced--assuming the good times continue to roll...
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo: After airlifting about 100 foreign residents over the weekend to nearby Kinshasa, Congo, the U.S. Embassy is desperately trying to negotiate a cease-fire so that some two dozen American citizens holed up in the embassy compound can reach the airport and flights out. The evacuation efforts are taking place amid continued intensive fighting between militiamen loyal to deposed military leader Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso and beleagured troops loyal to President Pascal Lissouba who are struggling for control of Brazzaville. Bracing itself for the worst, France, which has already lost one soldier in the clash, today...