Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, even the achievement of strategic stability would open up areas of concern now dormant. It would bring to the fore the pressing need to build up conventional forces to deter non-nuclear challenges. That problem would be addressed in a new environment. For all parties would know that they have taken-at last-a big step toward avoiding nuclear catastrophe. This is an imperative that humanity demands and reality imposes...
...Chicago surprise was made possible by the swelling involvement of a traditionally dormant group-the Blacks. If a similar rebellion of outsiders against White's cynical politics takes place, two candidates stand to benefit-South Boston City Councilor Raymond D. Flynn and Black South End State Representative Melvin H. King. Both have fared well in low-income and minority areas in the past, and both, like Washington in Chicago, have made the machine a major target of their campaigns...
...immediately applicable way to correct genetic defects. In the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers described an alternative method of genetic manipulation that for the first time has been successfully used to treat a serious disease. The solution: employing a drug to reactivate apparently intact genes that had been dormant since birth...
...extremely cautious. Though only one patient experienced mild and transient nausea and vomiting, doctors worry about administering a toxic anticancer drug forlong periods. Another concern: What other genes are being altered? A fear is that the drug approach may inadvertently switch on recently discovered cancer genes that apparently lie dormant in most people. Nonetheless, noted Hematologist Edward Benz of Yale University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the NEJM, "this research represents a major new step in treating disease and demonstrates beyond doubt that genetic manipulation has come to the bedside...
...executives had been in Moscow for the first meeting in four years of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, which had fallen dormant after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and trade sanctions by Presidents Carter and Reagan. With the lifting of sanctions only days before the meeting, the Soviets seemed eager once again to get down to business with the Americans...