Word: extract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jurors also questioned the methods apparently used to extract confessions from the defendants. Gwynfor Owen, 22, a Royal Air Force senior aircraftsman, told his parents that he admitted to espionage only after being informed that they too would be arrested. Christopher Payne, 26, another R.A.F. defendant, claimed that he was denied use of the bathroom for twelve hours at a time and made to shave three or four times a day until his face bled. The Thatcher government has promised an independent inquiry into the interrogations. But there was no escaping the conclusion that after many embarrassments over porousness...
Scientists will take bacteria called Pseudomonas syringae, which are found on nearly all plants, and extract the gene that causes ice crystals to form when the bacteria come in contact with a plant and the temperature falls to between 20 degrees F and 32 degrees F. The altered bacteria will be sprayed on one-tenth of an acre of strawberry plants and are expected to prevent the plants' blossoms and leaves from freezing. AGS predicts that the product could have sales of up to $100 million annually to farmers...
...said it confidently: "Architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." Heirs to the Palladian vision are more subdued. The modern couple who decide to build a house had better check their marital foundations first. For his part, the architect must patiently extract straight lines from his clients' tangled desires. He must also establish a working truce with his natural enemy, the builder. Then there is the money, probably the largest amount most people will ever spend in any one place. If it is any comfort, Jefferson was always over budget...
Assad managed to extract an important clarification from each side. No happier than France or Switzerland to act as a warden over U.S. prisoners, he - persuaded Berri to stop demanding that the hostages remain in Syria until all of Israel's detainees were released. Conversely, from Washington he won an assurance that those detainees would be granted their freedom. Ironically, in the same Friday speech that evidently angered Berri, Reagan carefully reaffirmed that fact. "Israel had always intended to release them and had made that very clear," said the President...
Throughout the last few years of the Pakistani saga, the Reagan Administration has been severely criticized in Congress for giving military assistance to the Zia government without extracting further concrete assurances about Pakistan's nuclear program. The official U.S. position remains that Pakistan does not have atomic weapons and has not assembled the nuclear explosives to make them. But a top U.S. official says that the Administration remains "concerned" about Pakistan's efforts to obtain weapons technology. Washington discounts Indian suspicions of Pakistan's nuclear intentions as part of the long-standing rivalry between those two countries. Says a State...