Word: conferred
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...Genetically engineered foods contain genetic material from dissimilar plants, animals, viruses and bacteria, or contain synthetically produced genetic material to confer certain characteristics desirable to the food producers," the letter said...
...take note). In its simplest form, the theory states that new traits will spontaneously appear in individual members of a given species -- in modern terms, mutations will arise in the organisms' genetic material. Usually the traits will be either useless or debilitating, but once in a while they'll confer a survival advantage, allowing the individual to live longer and bear more offspring. Over time, the new survival trait -- camouflage stripes on a zebra, antibiotic resistance in a bacterium -- will become more and more common in the population until it's universal...
...women may differ on whether extramarital sex is a sin. But when the products of such unions are restigmatized as "illegitimate," all women, chaste or otherwise, are potentially on shaky ground. The implication is that a mother can give birth, but only a father can confer full membership in the human community, i.e., "legitimacy." A child that no man has claimed -- either through marriage or later legal "legitimation" procedures -- becomes somehow less worthy and less human. In English common law, an out- of-wedlock child was filius nullius, meaning child of no one. The kid was a bastard; the mother...
...peace circle. Rabin offered no details and said there were still "huge gaps" between his government and Syrian President Hafez Assad over ending nearly half a century of conflict. On Sunday, Rabin will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who shuttled to Syria last week. Days later, Rabin will confer with Secretary of State Warren Christopher in an attempt to break the deadlock...
President Neil L. Rudenstine will confer 5,335 degrees on students graduating from the University this morning...