Word: corruptedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ingber, along with Folkman and their associates, sent the corrupted sample to Japan, where chemists grew the fungus in huge 10,000-liter vats in order to extract the potent compound. The Japanese found the active, capillary-suppressing agent to be the rare fungus fumagillin.
4. "Amateur" athletics are corrupted by the almighty dollar. Money is clearly the top problem in college sports today. Athletic programs get rich off multi-billion dollar TV deals. Coaches face intense booster pressure to win at any cost or get fired. Corruption pervades the system.
I thought that if another childhood myth had to be corrupted, graham crackers would be the next to go. But they (the evil "they" who dispel most childhood myths) got to the SAT first.
"He's a corrupted bastard," says a blond manwith tortoise glasses and a French accent.
Preaching that message has been Marsalis' burning mission throughout his career. On talk shows, in interviews, at schoolroom seminars, he tirelessly proclaims the "majesty" of the jazz tradition and inveighs against those who, in his view, are selling it out to the forces of "commercialism." His particular bete noire has...