Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association (hear the clang of bureaucracy in that name), and they must pour a whole new mold. In attempting nothing less than a second revolution, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is also adjusting Lenin, paying lip service to his dogma even while reshaping it to fit the needs of the U.S.S.R. The task is a delicate one, for the future of the Soviet Union -- in some ways, the future of us all -- is at stake. A single crucial slip and the nation's No. 1 sculptor might find himself starting from scratch...
...seems to be the national pastime. In our appetite for gossip, we tend at times to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts, but only diminished. Let the harassment fit the crime, one is tempted to conclude. And let him who is without sin throw out the first ball...
...companion case, Kennedy said waging a war on drugs demands that Customs workers in key jobs be fit and immune to bribes or blackmail...
...Customs Service is our nation's first line of defense against one of the greatest problems affecting the health and welfare of our population," he said. "The government has a compelling interest in ensuring that front-line interdiction personnel are physically fit and have unimpeachable integrity and judgement...
...chromosome. Should the gene be slipped into the middle of another vital gene, for example, it might disrupt the functioning of that gene, with disastrous consequences. Also, says M.I.T. biologist Richard Mulligan, there are limitations to the viral insertion of genes. "Most genes," he explains, "are too big to fit into a retrovirus...