Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind the scenes to make possible the agreement that has undoubtedly helped send the Dow soaring to new heights as our national economic confidence rises. Forsaking the vastly higher salaries and benefits available in the private sector, Raines has spent two and a half years of service in the fray of the nation's capital, with its media frenzy and partisan battles...
...believe that more information and more opinions will eventually lead to more truth. That is why we were among the first journalists to go online and on the Web, and why we have pushed for open systems, like the Internet, that allow a diversity of voices to join the fray...
...have never been against conciliation of the Buddhists. I am only against one-way conciliation. If sometimes I have to step in the fray, becoming a target of most cruel blows, it is not at all by natural taste, but because someone must finally make up his mind to take a position, dangerous, maybe, but necessary to break the paralyzing fear of others. What else can I do when I feel responsible for half of the population which I have done so much to liberate? Because of my utmost sincerity, I think that if I show some awkwardness, I need...
OCCUPATION: Publishes sleazy books AGE: 44 BEST PUNCH: A HarperCollins spokesman said McCarthy failed to fulfill her promotional obligations. Regan, staying above the fray, says, "Jenny's only conflict is with herself...
...that coat the tips of the chromosomes and, much like the plastic cuffs on shoelaces, prevent the strands from unraveling. Every time a cell splits in two, the telomeres shorten, until finally, after about 40 to 90 divisions, they are reduced to stubs. Because any further divisions would fray the chromosomes, the cells settle into a twilight stage and eventually die. Only an enzyme called telomerase, first discovered in 1984, can repair the damaged telomeres. However, most human cells, with the exception of reproductive cells, stop making the compound during fetal development...