Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head one of its two genome centers. "It's largely an engineering project," Cantor explains, intended to produce tools for faster, less expensive sequencing and to develop data bases and computer programs to scan the data. Not to be outdone, Japan has set up a consortium of four high- tech companies to establish an automated assembly line, complete with robots, that researchers hope will be capable of sequencing 100,000 base pairs a day within three years...
Like playing quarterback for his high school football team in Flint, Mich., pitching for the University of Michigan, earning the 1987 Sullivan Award as America's best amateur athlete, winning the gold-medal baseball game in the Seoul Olympics and being drafted No. 1 by the Angels. Though he is expected to open the season in the AA or AAA minors, for now Abbott's shirt says ANGELS. "Just looking around at everything here," he says, "it hits you. A big- league camp...
...optimists say will last at least two years, both sides showed a rare eagerness to make these talks succeed. If a pragmatic tone distinguished their formal speeches, a private meeting between Baker and Shevardnadze at the official residence of U.S. Ambassador Henry Grunwald plainly left the two statesmen in high spirits. "My impression is that both sides are willing to cooperate," Shevardnadze said enthusiastically. A relieved Baker said, "The proposal ((the Soviets)) advanced was really remarkably close to the NATO proposal . . . ((we're)) off to a pretty good start...
...Wyoming Congressman and new Defense Secretary-designate is many of the things Tower was not: a gentlemanly lawmaker whose low-key style belies his tenacity; a conservative who wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed him as "a man of honor and integrity...
...sort of professional politician -- to use your vocabulary, though we don't have such terminology -- in which case my functions will be different and ought to be looked at differently. As to actually becoming a member of the Supreme Soviet, I don't rate my chances very high...