Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter said he would not travel abroad in his first year in office. Yet he had already attended the London summit in May, and here he was preparing to plunge into a grab bag of nations (Brazil, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, France, Poland and Belgium) with little hope of emerging with a common theme or coherent message. The inclusion of Brazil and Iran ruled out an overall emphasis on human rights, and the European portion made it difficult to bill the exercise as a courtesy call on the Third World...
...year after the end of a wanton struggle that raged for 19 months, killed 40,000 people and nearly destroyed a nation without noticeable gain for either Christian or Muslim combatants, Lebanon is painfully rebuilding. The primary symbol of the country's hope and determination to once again live at peace with itself is the reconstruction of Beirut, which serves not merely as Lebanon's capital but as home for half of its 3 million people and, until the war crippled it, was a gleaming Middle East social and commercial hub. The fighting devastated Beirut's business...
...strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli. The bug then multiplied into countless duplicate bacteria, each containing the insulin gene, but incapable of producing insulin. In the work announced last week, Microbiologist Herbert Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco, along with Biochemist Arthur Riggs of the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles and Physiologist Wylie Vale of the Salk Institute in San Diego synthesized copies of the gene for somatostatin, a hormone in the brains of mammals that inhibits the secretion of pituitary growth hormone. Then they chemically inserted the genes into the DNA of E. coli...
Last week its prospects for survival suddenly improved. Rejecting the advice of militant shop stewards, Leyland's 100,000 car workers voted 2 to 1 for a package of bargaining reforms that holds at least some hope of ending labor anarchy. The results of the vote came on the first day in office of Michael Edwardes, who was named chairman by the government, getting his term off to an auspicious start...
...fact that this is THE GAME weren't enough to confound those who hope to win some money on its outcome, there is also the reality that the 1977 Harvard football squad is no easy matter to figure...