Word: damper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that didn't put a damper on the fun Thursday night...
While Head weekend featured some of the traditional partying, students said Harvard's security measures put a damper on the festivities...
...today's game could determine what is ahead for the Crimson, for another loss would take the Crimson out of NCAA contention and put a big damper on the rest of the season...
...anti-HIV medications approved so far are chemical cousins of AZT, the first drug ever shown to put a damper on hiv infection, if only temporarily. AZT works by sabotaging an enzyme called reverse transcriptase that helps the virus copy itself. But the newest group of potential fast trackers, called protease inhibitors, interferes with a different part of the virus' reproductive cycle. Although protease inhibitors don't seem to slow down HIV for long, investigators hope a combination of an older AZT-like drug and one of the new pills could prove more effective than any single medication...
...soot release was caused by a loose linkage on the boiler's air damper, O'Brien's letter said...