Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compete against." In fact, the deal does little to prevent the richer teams from continuing to outbid poorer, smaller market clubs for talent. The only break on salaries is the luxury tax, which forces up to five teams to pay taxes of 35 percent if their payrolls exceed $51 million next season. The new pact, expected to approved by the players union next week, should bring peace to baseball after years of labor strife since the last agreement between owners and players expired in 1992. In the end, the players got most of what they wanted (no cap on salaries...
...they eat, they breed, they fly. But they do it for a lot longer. Fruit flies in Rose's colony may survive for up to 140 days. In the absence of predators, fruit flies in the wild get just 70. A person with this kind of longevity would easily exceed 150 years...
Since telomerase keeps these tenacious cells going, is it reasonable to assume that the same enzyme could be used artificially to help mortal cells--and the body itself--exceed their programmed life-span? At Geron Corp., a San Francisco-based biomedical firm, biologist Calvin Harley is trying to find out. Harley, who collaborated with Greider on her later telomere work, is looking for the genes that direct telomerase production, believing he might be able to manipulate them so that the spigot for the enzyme can be turned on and off at will. "I think we are going to see fundamental...
...claim us first. For much of the time our species has been on the planet, that figure is thought to have been a mere 20 years--barely long enough for contemporary people living contemporary lives to move out of their parents' home. The fact that those lives now routinely exceed 80 years is a monumental achievement. A little more progress in studying telomerase, glycosylation and other aspects of senescence science, and researchers like Butler believe there's no reason today's adults could not realistically hope...
...mission is child's play, creating a toy or game that sells is not: the process generally takes a couple of years and requires big up-front costs. Toy manufacturers pray for a product's sales to double after the launch of TV ads and for demand to exceed supply temporarily...