Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depth of Ghana's economic malaise is painfully visible on the streets of Accra, the capital. Potholes are everywhere; government buildings have not seen a new coat of paint in a decade. In the city's once thriving central market, goods are now in short supply. An egg costs $2.20; a pack of cigarettes, $30. Many factories have closed completely for lack of materials, while those that remain open commonly operate at only 10% of capacity. Harvests of cassava, the staple vegetable of the Ghanaian diet, have fallen to 1.8 million tons, down from 3.6 million tons...
...West with a proponent of plate tectonics. This branch of earth science grows from the theory that the planet's great land masses slide around like dishes on a boat. Over time, Africa could end up in Brazil's feijoada, Australia in China's egg foo yung...
When the congressional conferees met to work out a consensus on the continuing resolution, the "compromise" between the House's $5.4 billion program and the Senate's $1.2 billion program turned out to be a Reagan-pleasing goose egg. Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts put the matter bluntly to Democratic Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi. Said Conte: "Christ, Jamie, why make us go through this? We'll just get a veto and be right back here." At a private conference that evening, the Democrats decided it was futile to provoke a confrontation that would close down...
Besides being a dreary calling at times, kicking positions are as fragile as Viennese chandeliers. After twelve years and four teams, egg-shaped Austrian Toni Fritsch missed two field goals for New Orleans last week and, disgusted with himself, went home to Vienna. Some of the soccer kickers, domestic and foreign, know enough about both football and human nature to risk tossing their lithe bodies about the field recklessly. If they never get smudged, they are certain to feel more isolated from teammates when the extra points blow off course. The New York Jets' Pat Leahy...
...immediate medical applications, there is little doubt that the new technique for gene transfer will shed some light on certain inherited disorders. "In a sense," says Palmiter, "the big mice are models of pituitary giantism in humans." It may also help scientists unravel the mysteries of how a fertilized egg becomes a living organism and how gene regulation goes awry in cancer. Concludes Brinster: "This study provides another system in which we can examine the regulation and control of genes, and that is one of the most important issues in biology...