Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bradykinin," says Black, "is that it does not open the barrier to the normal brain--only to tumors." By using RMP-7, a synthetic version of bradykinin, Black's team has been able to focus chemotherapy drugs right on the tumors, increasing the effective dose as much as 10-fold. Crucial to RMP-7's success, however, is the development of more effective chemotherapy drugs against brain cancer...
Pope John Paul II will travel to Brazil to start a four-day tour designed to return many of the nation's lapsed Catholics back to the fold. The Pope will try to address a 20-year decline in the nation's Catholic population with his usual blend of the spectacular (masses held in soccer stadiums) and the divine (speeches attacking abortion, extolling the virtues of the family and urging people to be more Catholic...
...Russia's petroleum giant LUKoil and Mexico's version of AT&T, Telefonos de Mexico, list their shares with major U.S. stock exchanges. Those numbers are growing, and Americans are happy to take a flyer. They own $560 billion of stock issued by companies outside the U.S.--a 15-fold increase since...
...portable, digital replacement for the cassette, to take music on the go and make your own compilations. We didn't explain it clearly." Now Sony is trying to make itself better understood. It has relaunched the Mini with a national ad campaign, hoping to spur the 10-fold increase in sales seen in last fall's test markets and help the U.S. join an expected burgeoning world market. "The cassette and the CD didn't explode in the early years," Viken points out. "In the '90s, I think we're all a little impatient...
...market it to K-12 and collegiate education markets. Less technically demanding to assemble than most notebooks, the eMate retails for just under $800. In fact, the new Apple chair Steven P. Jobs decided recently to nix the spinning of Newton from Apple, bringing the subsidiary back into the fold-largely to develop new eMate products...