Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door in a hurry into hot market niches is one of Chrysler's strengths. It comes from the company's design-driven managers, and from the company's inordinate reliance on outside suppliers. Mercedes engineers everything but the screws from the ground up, one reason it took years to develop its M-Class sport utility vehicle. Scrappy Chrysler could teach it how to develop and roll out in a more timely fashion a superluxurious SUV to compete against the popular Lincoln Navigator...
...Nobel Prize with Dr. Harold Varmus for their pioneering work on oncogenes. But Bishop is impressed that the field is moving so swiftly, and most researchers are convinced that they are at least on the right track. Says Joseph Schlessinger, a New York University scientist who helped develop SU101: "Early in the next millennium, we will significantly extend the life expectancy of cancer patients. I have no doubt about that...
...hours, students must be aggressive. Once you find a professor who is doing work in an area of your interest, be relentless about going to his or her office hours. Inquire about the professor's research and ask to be employed as a research assistant. Hopefully these interactions will develop into a personal relationship and provide tangible and intangible benefits...
...dormant for long periods of time, all the while doing extensive damage to the reproductive system. According to the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/chlamydia_facts.htm) "Untreated, chlamydia can cause severe costly reproductive and other health problems.... Up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia will develop PID [pelvic inflammatory disease]. ... Of those with PID, 20 percent will become infertile; 18 percent will experience debilitating chronic pelvic pain; and 9 percent will have a life-threatening tubal pregnancy [which] is the leading cause of first-trimester, pregnancy-related deaths in American women.... In addition, recent research has shown that women...
INCREDIBLE EDIBLE Get vaccinated by eating veggies? Maybe one day. Scientists have bioengineered a potato to contain a protein that causes diarrhea. When subjects eat it, they develop antibodies to the diarrhea...