Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Genentech is already working on a vaccine against hoof-and-mouth disease, which kills off millions of food-producing animals a year round the world. Geneticists also hope to endow such basic food plants as wheat, corn and rice with the ability to "fix'' or draw their own nitrogen from the air. At present, nitrogen must be provided in expensive fertilizers made from increasingly costly petroleum products. But scientists using plasmids have already cloned some of the nitrogen-fixing genes found in bacteria. And in an experiment at Cornell, a complete...
...economics but on a change in the national psychology, to be engineered by convincing citizens that their leader knows what to do and is determined to carry out his plans. Said Reagan: "We are in control here. There is nothing wrong with America that together we can't fix." But can his program really convince workers, businessmen, bankers that inflation is not the wave of the future? Or will they go on demanding extra wage boosts, still higher prices, more interest on loans in a futile attempt to stay ahead of the game-and thus bring about more inflation...
...free from scrutiny. In the monthly Eternity, Columnist Joseph Bayly complains that while worthy causes pinch pennies, cash flows freely to high-living evangelists subject only to boards led by relatives and retainers. To allay doubts, nondenominational ministries in 1979 created the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (E.C.F.A.) to fix fund-raising standards. Many evangelists, including Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, have won its seal of approval; others, including Jim Bakker, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson, have not. Bayly advises contributors to demand a financial statement even if a group has the E.C.F.A. seal: "If questions are dodged...
With those smug words, a small-time criminal with big Mob connections claimed that he pulled off a scheme to attempt to fix the scores of nine Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season. In a first-person account in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Henry Hill says he bribed three Boston College players, including Co-Captains Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney, to shave points so that Hill and his friends in the Tommy Lucchese crime family could gamble successfully against the point spread...
When did modern art begin? It is impossible to fix a date; the roots are too tangled in the subsoil of the 19th century. But one can point to some crucial events of its growth. One of them happened in France in the late 1880s, within a group of painters-some now familiar to us as secular saints or movie heroes, others still relatively ill-known -who kept venturing out of Paris toward more "primitive" places. Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard ranged among the megaliths, the cold heather and the gaunt folk-Christs in Brittany. Vincent van Gogh pursued what...