Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what vicinity it occupies now, Ditka replies, "Chicago." This season's odd shadow is being cast by Doug Flutie, the 5-ft. 9-in. quarterback from Boston College, whose Heisman Trophy two years ago appeared to have been sculpted to scale. After settling his seven-figure account with the dormant U.S. Football League, Flutie signed just a few weeks ago to back up Mike Tomczak, who backs up Steve Fuller, who backs up McMahon. General Manager Jerry Vainisi describes Flutie's Chicago earnings as "less than Fuller, more than Tomczak," who lately has done most of the playing. Two weeks...
...hours after the announcement, the records were surrendered to police by a lawyer representing Andreas J. Hackner, a junior tax assessor for Revenue Canada, who was promptly suspended and may face theft charges. Hackner reportedly borrowed the files to start a business in tracking down dormant bank accounts...
Despite the quick notoriety that it has gained, Taiwan flu is not considered unusually dangerous. As a close cousin of long-dormant strains, however, it poses a particular threat to people under 35 with chronic health problems; they are not old enough to have developed a strong immunity from previous exposures...
...cause excruciating attacks of shingles. The Epstein-Barr virus, a herpes family member that causes infectious mononucleosis, follows a similar strategy, though its hiding place is not in the nerves but in the B cells, the very cells that make antibodies to viruses. In contrast to the dormant staying power of herpes viruses, the persistent hepatitis B virus can linger in the liver for decades while continuing to multiply. Those who are infected as infants, as many newborns in China, Southeast Asia and Africa are, almost always become lifelong carriers. "The virus doesn't do much damage for a long...
...host cell. A retrovirus, however, must first use its enzyme called reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA into a DNA molecule, which can then insert itself into the cell's DNA and order the cellular machinery to begin producing more retroviruses. Or it can remain dormant and invisible to the immune system, / awaiting some signal to begin causing trouble. Hidden in the cell's DNA, says David Baltimore, who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of reverse transcriptase, the viruses "have found the perfect niche...