Word: drives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driver, Gail M. Price, said she was driving alone along Plympton Street a block away from Memorial Drive, when the shuttle bus coming from Mill Street started to proceed through the intersection without stopping...
...Yale undergraduate, George Bush headed the local drive for the United Negro College Fund, a consortium that then represented 32 private black schools. Last week, as Bush delivered the keynote speech at the fund's 45th- anniversary dinner in Manhattan, and it was clear his ardor had not waned. "Then as now," said the President, "the U.N.C.F.") insists that excellence become a way of life...
...solution is automation. "It will improve accuracy," says Stanford's Paul Berg. "It will remove boredom; it will accomplish what we want in the end." The drive for automation has already begun; a machine designed by Caltech biologist Leroy Hood can now sequence 16,000 base pairs a day. But Hood, a member of the Genome Advisory Committee, is hardly satisfied. "Before we can seriously take on the genome initiative," he says, "we will want to do 100,000 to a million a day." The cost, he hopes, will eventually drop to a penny per base pair...
...does not have to like Married . . . With Children or TV's tabloid shows to be disturbed by campaigns to drive them from the air. Advertiser boycotts, if successful, do not make TV better, only blander. They also reveal a remarkable lack of faith in the ability of viewers to lodge the ultimate protest: turning...
...tried really hard," said Megan Todd, the club's president. "It would have been such an opportunity for the women's club, but it wasn't feasible. We didn't have enough money to rent the bus and there's no one over 25 to sign for us and drive us there...