Word: eggs
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Liberals labeled the Ryzhkov proposals a "defeat for perestroika and a victory for central planning." Radical economist Gavril Popov dismissed the new Five-Year Plan as a return to "administrative socialism." Noting that the plan even sets goals for egg production, he quipped, "It's time for the comrades in charge to leave our laying hen in peace so she can provide us with enough eggs by her own efforts...
...currency-control laws to get his savings out of the country; a multinational corporation that seeks to "minimize" its tax burden by dumping its profits in tax-free havens; a South African investor who wants to avoid economic sanctions; an East German Communist leader who stashed a personal nest egg in Swiss bank accounts; or even the CIA and KGB when they need to finance espionage or covert activities overseas...
...More Mr. Clean: Heading into the weekend, junior Mike Vukonich had two noticeable stats: 11 points, which put him in second place on the team scoring list, and a big goose egg in the penalty-minutes column. With all the time Harvard's been spending in the hot box lately, Vukonich's good behavior stuck out--at least enough for Harvard Assistant Sports Information Director Julie Rice to make mention of his good behavior in the weekend game notes...
...team of medical researchers has devised a technique that may eventually help parents sidestep this predicament. Scientists at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Northwestern University, led by geneticist Yury Verlinsky, say they can test for genetic defects in the human egg even before it has been fertilized. The technique could enable thousands of mothers with a family history of genetic disorders to avoid giving birth to an afflicted child without having to undergo abortion. Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, president of the American Society of Human Genetics, calls the new method "promising" but stresses that more testing is needed...
...procedure, reported last week at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, is based on analysis of the "first polar body," a small packet of chromosomes sloughed off from the human egg during cell division. First the researchers remove several eggs from a woman's ovaries. Next the first polar body is detached, and a new genetic test called ! polymerase chain reaction is employed to analyze the chromosomes, which are complementary to those left in the egg's nucleus. Eggs that are not defective can then be selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known...