Word: development
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STATUS The only country to develop nuclear weapons and then give them up of its own volition. De Klerk dismantled the arsenal in 1991 and joined...
...course: the Dave Matthews Band's uneven new CD, Before These Crowded Streets, just debuted atop the Billboard charts, helped by a loyal fan following established through constant, Grateful Dead-like touring. It would be fascinating to see Garbage also buck the trend toward planned pop obsolescence and develop some of their intriguing, still coalescing, musical ideas...
...institutions must develop a strong constituent base, and respect that constituent base," Wilson said. But, she added, "it is important to know that the ultimate responsibility for the institutional structure is an assigned responsibility. There is a group of people who hold the institution in trust--our board of trustees...
...hope to advance each and every organ transplant therapy, to make it more successful, more efficient. We expect to develop new transplant therapies and do cutting edge research on therapy and all aspects of immunobiology," Monaco said...
Similar or not, no one, except perhaps a few animal-rights activists, is about to chase mice out of the lab. Mice save lives. Because their tumors develop almost overnight, says Merck's Oliff, "we can do tests 10 or 100 times more quickly than in humans." Their usefulness varies with diseases, though. He notes that rodents are better predictors of human reaction to cardiovascular or anti-inflammatory agents than to cancer or diseases of the central nervous system. But that's a trade-off researchers are more than willing to accept in their search for a cancer cure...