Word: hosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performer pirouetted his way onto Soviet TV in Pepsi commercials featuring slogans like "The new generation chooses Pepsi" that were superimposed in Russian. The ads, along with commercials for Visa credit cards and Sony TV sets, appeared in a series of talk shows with Soviet Commentator Vladimir Posner as host. He interviewed Americans in Seattle on subjects ranging from sex to presidential politics. The ads marked the first time that companies have been allowed to buy time on Soviet...
OMNIBUS (ABC, May 26, 10 p.m. EDT). Beverly Sills is host, and Bernardo Bertolucci and David Hockney are among the subjects of this "cultural excursion" based on the 1950s series...
...overcome the system's initial response and cause illness, the immune cells are usually able to regroup, call up reinforcements and eventually rout the invaders. But when the system is weakened by previous illness or advancing age, for example, the body becomes more vulnerable to cancers and a host of infectious diseases. And should the system overreact or go awry, it can cause troublesome allergies and serious disorders called autoimmune diseases...
...until after World War II that the pace of discovery began to quicken, boosted by such achievements as the deciphering of the genetic code and recombinant DNA technology. But no early advances can match those of recent years, which have enabled doctors to devise ingenious new treatments for a host of disorders. Says Immunologist John Kappler, of the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver: "The field is progressing so rapidly that the journals are out of date by the time they are published...
...Crimson was staring at its calendar and at the national tournament, which featured Eastern champion Slippery Rock and a host of California teams. But the tournament conflicted with the team's academic calendar...