Word: dubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first marriage, which ended in divorce. Her second husband, Neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein, died of cancer shortly before she became mayor. She has since married Financier Richard Blum, whose active role in his wife's career has been criticized in some quarters, leading one columnist to dub the mayor "Feinblum...
...real meat of it is in the (spontaneous?) dialogue coming from Strummer, as he talks politics or introduces the song "I'm So Bored with the USA," dedicating it to Freddie Laker, "the man who made it all possible." Later, Strummer sings lyrics a cappella on a studio dub of "All the Young Punks," undermining his own lyrics with harmonic "c---s" on the final rhyme. One senses validity and importance in this early version of the Clash; one also imagines Clash Muzak in some future elevator...
...politicians may dub it Billygate, but poor Jimmy ends up being the Billy goat...
...Horwitz and Samuel Silverstein of Manhattan's Rockefeller University have found that it belongs to a select group of bacteria that evade the body's immune system by turning it to their own advantage. Like the microbes that cause tuberculosis and leprosy, the bug is what scientists dub an intracellular pathogen. It invades white blood cells called monocytes, which normally kill bacteria, and uses material within these cells to propagate-in droves. In one experiment at Rockefeller, Legionella added to a culture of monocytes increased 100,000-fold within days...