Word: hinting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Call every Representative on the fence; hint at a private pork roast B. Call a bipartisan commission to study the issues further C. Play golf; try to look good; lash out at do-nothing Congress...
...Brood a while; call a league pal, hint that ref needs glasses B. Scream until the ref recants C. Think to yourself: Gee, was the ref maybe right...
Even more exciting was the fact that the source of these new cells was neural-stem cells, master cells with the ability to morph into any type of brain cell, depending on the chemical signals they receive as they grow. Early studies hint that they may even belong to a more primitive population of stem cells that can form anything from skin to blood to liver. Gage showed that a part of the hippocampus contains actively developing neural-stem cells; he further speculated that this regeneration may eventually be controlled by the timely addition or subtraction...
Beyond "almost anything," of course, is violence, and so far there hasn't been a hint of that. On Monday, it was puppetry and pageantry (and a lack of a permit), as the Kensington Welfare Rights Union - a Philly-based organization for the poor and homeless - gathered at City Hall for a trek to the RNC site at the First Union Center in South Philadelphia. Thousands of single-file protesters started down four miles of Broad Street. Placards and banners alternated with chanters ("Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Poverty has got to go!"); a 13-wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates...
...stream depends on attracting Americans' support - unlike politicians, whose funding is more dependent on delivering donor-friendly legislation - it's even more responsive to the popular will than either the GOP or the Democrats. Therein lies the reason why this week's network prime-time programming schedule gives no hint, before Thursday (and George W.'s Big Speech), that the party currently tipped to win the presidential election will nominate its candidate this week. It's been bumped not just by such obvious candidates as "Survivor" and "Big Brother," but even by football and reruns of "Third Rock From...