Word: destroyed
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...where would that help come from? Boston's Martin Hirsch and other virologists had already started looking to cancer research for inspiration. Oncologists have learned that it is often better to combine the firepower of several different chemotherapeutic drugs than to rely on any single medication to destroy cancer cells. Too often, they have found, the one-drug approach allows a few malignant cells to survive and blossom into an even more lethal tumor. The AIDS researchers faced a similar problem with HIV. Whenever they prescribed a single drug, such as AZT, for their patients, a few viral particles would...
...those rich people in Virginia manage to snatch the Civil War out of the giant's path by thwarting plans for a blue-and-gray theme park? Never mind, giant. Over here, in another part of the garden, is an entire breed of dog you can destroy...
...They would risk repeating many of the mistakes that made nine-tenths of the 20th century such a disaster for them. Most notably those mistakes included defining their own security at the expense of everyone else's and misdefining security itself as the expensive, wasteful and dangerous capacity to destroy and intimidate...
...successful efforts to rollback affirmative action nationwide. However, the recent Texaco scandal demonstrates some of the reasons why these policies were enacted and why they are still necessary. Texaco was rocked last week by the release of secretly recorded tapes of top management mocking black employees and conspiring to destroy documents that could prove that the company's promotion practices were discriminatory. One Texaco executive sneered that "all the black jellybeans seem to be glued to the bottom...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "In 1994 the country voted in a whole set of boys whose purpose was to destroy everything we had laboriously built up over the past 75 years...