Word: distant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well known that some tumors suppress the growth of metastases," Folkman said. "Our question was [that] if tumor size is ultimately controlled by endothelial proliferation, could a primary tumor suppress growth of a distant metastasis by delivering an endothelial inhibitor to it through the circulation...
...Saint." Later Noyce and scriptwriter Wesley Strick trekked to South Africa, where Kilmer was shooting another film. "Let's go," the actor greeted them. He hopped into a Land Rover and, steering wheel in one hand, cigarette in the other, drove them madly across dirt roads to a distant campsite where he was living in a tent. Over a fire that evening Noyce asked Kilmer for his ideas about The Saint. "By the time he finished," Noyce recalls, "the sun had come...
...Abbotts is aware of are all those lock-up-your-daughters movies of the 1950s, to which for some dotty reason it is eager to prove its superiority of understanding. But the goofy hysteria of something like A Summer Place was infinitely more entertaining and emotionally authentic than the distant smugness of this failed clone...
...with Cantata 2000 and Harvard students has added Swados's optimism for the future. Upon seeing the energies and talents of the students she's worked with, Swados remarks "I think I'll feel less alone because I'll know the generations that are coming up are not so distant from me. I can reach out to them and they're there...
...years, smoking has leveled off, and teens seem to be increasing their intake. Older smokers may pay more heed than younger ones to warnings about addiction on Liggett cigarette labels. That's because the young are more apt to look upon smoking as cool and the consequences a distant threat. And they may cling to that view even when a major manufacturer admits that with regard to the truth about cigarettes and health, it has been blowing smoke for years...