Word: hiatus
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...cancellation of the women's match denied to Crimson an excellent opportunity to gain some valuable team-match experience after the long hiatus between the fall and spring dual meet seasons...
During Anderson's gene-therapy hiatus, however, Richard Mulligan, an M.I.T. researcher, showed that genetically engineered mouse-leukemia retroviruses were effective vectors for inserting human genes into mouse DNA. To Anderson, this meant one thing: gene therapy was now possible, and he was back in business...
...western's long hiatus has also given the format new room to roam. Patricia Limerick, a professor at the University of Colorado and a leading revisionist historian, sees the end of the cold war as liberating. "We don't have to create an image and an ideology of ourselves as heroic expanders of the frontier and innocents who fight evil," she says. "All of that cold war fervor that drove the old westerns has lifted, so you can do more complex and interesting westerns." At a time when gritty urban realism and literal-minded docudramas hold sway, westerns...
...than regurgitate her past triumphs, however. While Stones for Ibarra examined an American couple forging new lives for themselves abroad, Consider This, Senora tells of four Yanquis living aloof from their Mexican surroundings. Rather than engage with their new land, the protagonists live apart, their Mexican adventure just a hiatus in the larger scheme. For them, Mexico is not a country in its own right, but an absence or escape from their former lives...
...present, the research is on hiatus, waiting for the complex mass of wires, scaffolding and hidden machinery sitting on top of the Bio Labs to become a complete facility...