Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prolific cells. Elsewhere, investigators are looking into using the anticaramelization drug pimagedine to help clear arteries and improve cardiac health. Remove heart disease from the constellation of late-life illnesses, and you add three years to the national life expectancy. The detection of a gene that seems to confer protection against Alzheimer's disease may help treat yet another scourge of the aged, currently afflicting 4 million Americans...
...doubt that many students will truly "celebrate" Columbus Day; most probably won't think twice about the seafaring explorer on Monday. Yet, this holiday does confer hero status on Christopher Columbus, and it reflects the values and historical consciousness of our society...
Your bathetic cover and cover story insinuate that a better mousetrap may somehow confer ownership of the Internet upon Microsoft's CEO. Why don't I, a Windows 95 and Netscape user, feel threatened by your ridiculous proposition that control of the information age rests on the outcome of a browser war between a benign James Barksdale and a threatening, Pattonesque Bill Gates? Let them build and offer their mousetraps to the market, which welcomes and benefits from the competition between the two. JOSEPH D. ADAMS Painter, Virginia Via E-mail...
...essence, cancer is an evolutionary drama played out in one part of the body or another--the lung, the breast, the brain. Over time, a single abnormal cell becomes two, then four, then eight, then 16. Early on, these cells develop a repertoire of "tricks" that confer a survival advantage. Among other things, the tricks ensure that mutation will pile on mutation by shucking off, or silencing, genes that ordinarily monitor replicating DNA for chemical errors. The malignant cells quickly become resistant to the poisons physicians prescribe to kill them. They also acquire the disturbing ability to stimulate the formation...
...original form, the motion, sponsored by Vice-Mayor Kathleen L. Born and Councillor Henrietta A. Davis, merely called on the city manager to communicate concern to state authorities and confer with them to implement a regular testing schedule for the water...