Word: disarmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process, significant genetic changes occurred in small numbers of the virus. "The most important of these," he says, "was the deletion of an entire gene" that weakened the virus and made it suitable for a vaccine. What Kit has done by recombinant-DNA technology is to further disarm the virus by removing part of another gene that codes for an enzyme needed by the virus to reproduce...
Aquino's strategy in dealing with the Communists is to court the 16,000 to 20,000 rebels with offers of a six-month cease-fire and amnesty if they disarm. At least one regional N.P.A. command scoffed at that, demanding the ouster of Ramos and Enrile before talk of a cease-fire could begin. But the government is apparently considering at least one intriguing sweetener: paying the rebels above-market prices for turning in their guns. Under the plan, a guerrilla might receive, say, $1,750 for an automatic rifle worth $1,500 on the open market. He would...
...certain academic practices." Moreover, the regents, who were meeting when the judgment came down, deferred reappointment of the heads of all state-supported schools, most notably Fred C. Davison, the university's president. Davison did little to help his cause by stating that Georgia could not afford to "disarm unilaterally" by flunking stars while rivals kept theirs eligible. That argument was shot down by Propst: "It is neither an effective excuse nor a sound justification to argue that certain things are done because everyone else does them...
...role, Walters describes himself as "a pragmatist tinged with idealism." He favors a policy of "constructive ambiguity" to disarm his opponents, explaining, "I know how unpleasant surprises are to me, and so I'm going to try to make it equally unpleasant for them." He is fond of the canape-and-cocktail aspects of the job. A bachelor, he spends long hours entertaining U.N. diplomats in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers and visiting their delegations around Manhattan. "I believe that in an environment like the U.N.," he says, "you get a lot more with sugar than you do with...
...utilizes a gift for gab, a talent for making "the old feel young and the poor feel rich," as one friend puts it. Bunting favors disguises, what he calls "hidebehinds," becoming everything from a fish peddler to a buck dancer in order to confuse or disarm his prey. When these tricks fail, he calls upon oratorical ammunition. Confronted with some violators intent on ambushing him, he announces: "It is my duty to inform you that I am slick with a gun. I don't want to meet you in the Great Beyond and have you telling me that I didn...