Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...held sessions on Wednesday, not just Tuesday and Thursday, as Oval Office secretary Betty Currie wrapped up her testimony. The next day Clinton confidant Harold Ickes reappeared, along with the head of the President's Secret Service detail and two uniformed officers. Starr was pushing ahead so fast that he used two grand juries simultaneously to collect testimony...
...there were widespread leaks throughout the city that Monica had offered Starr examples of hypothetical statements in which Clinton had tried to guide her comments in the Paula Jones case. It was a signal flare to the White House: give it up. For Clinton the situation was deteriorating fast...
...typical day, the Associated Press, America's lion of fast, accurate journalism, runs several stories this sickening on its wire. Reading them on an old Atex computer at my desk at work, where we get several AP wires, frequently makes me ill. The AP reports every major scandal, murder, theft, rape or other gruesome deed that makes the papers, and many too gory to hit newsprint cross the wire as well...
...coli bacterium called E. coli O157:H7, or O157 for short. Ordinarily a benign organism found in the intestines of human beings and animals, E. coli has a nasty ability to mutate and proliferate. Lately it has been proliferating with a vengeance. Five years ago, the fast-food industry was rocked when four children died and 500 other people fell ill after eating E. coli O157-contaminated hamburgers at Jack in the Box restaurants across the Pacific northwest. Massive as that outbreak seemed at the time, it was, for the bacterium, merely a shot across...
Cows genetically engineered to produce valuable human proteins, for example, or pigs whose organs have been altered to remove proteins that trigger rejection after transplant operations, could be stamped out on an assembly line. Fast racehorses or blue-ribbon pets might be duplicated at will. In humans, both cancer and the aging process involve genetic changes at the cellular level. Thus a better understanding of how genes work might someday have implications for anti-cancer and anti-aging treatments...