Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students' allegations, while damning if proven true, have in the immediate confusion been overwhelmed by the storm of anger and resentment among the Black community. Outrage has taken the form of threatened appeals for legal action to the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Harvard and Cambridge Police departments and supervisory boards...
...concern, as well as the cost, reflects the complexity of the human genome and the magnitude of the effort required to understand it. DNA is found in the human-cell nucleus in the form of 46 separate threads, each coiled into a packet called a chromosome. Unraveled and tied together, these threads would form a fragile string more than 5 ft. long but only 50 trillionths of an inch across...
...approximate site of the genes, including many associated with hereditary diseases, by studying patterns of inheritance in families and chopping up their DNA strands for analysis. With this technique, they have tracked down the gene for cystic fibrosis in the midsection of chromosome 7, the gene for a rare form of colon cancer midway along the long arm of chromosome 5, and the one for familial Alzheimer's disease on the long arm of chromosome...
...With an adversary one fights a duel or settles scores in some form or other, by military force, for example. But Ligachev is my opponent. We simply have different opinions, different points of view on certain questions of tactics. Well, of course, I think he is more conservative, if not to say outright conservative, to put it simply. That is why I think this complicates the process of perestroika. There are, however, some forces behind him. They cannot be defined; they are not organized; you can't identify them as Ivanov or Petrov, but they exist. Not to the extent...
...Frank Lorenzo hopes to rebuild the airline. -- A new Third World debt plan. -- Time and Warner join forces to form a communications giant...