Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this hybrid creature," Rushdie said shortly before going into hiding. Most of his life has been spent as an outsider, an alien among local populations. He was born in Bombay in 1947, two months before the British pulled out of India; his parents were well-to-do Kashmiri Muslims and admirers of English customs and manners. Young Salman's religion and pale skin made him something of an anomaly in his native city...
Last Wednesday, the Deaconess team revealed abrand-new "hybrid" molecule which is slightlylonger than the first-generation Soluble t4 form."They took a piece of a normal human antibodymolecule and hooked it on the drug," saidSchooley...
...branches of Government. Congress had, for instance, given both legislative and executive functions to a commission within the judicial branch. The commission's recommendations have the force of law unless Congress vetoes them within six months. Justice Harry Blackmun's majority decision admitted that this setup is an "unusual hybrid" but said Congress had been "practical" in asking experts to handle a technical task...
Tanton aside, the English-language movement is something of a political hybrid, resisting categorization. Former and current members of the board of directors of U.S. English like Chavez and Cronkite, Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Bellow and Alistair Cooke are hardly xenophobes. They believe that, in a land that was founded by immigrants, English is the essential unifying force. The propositions they support may be little more than useless clutter, a reassurance that the U.S. is not vulnerable to a Quebec-style bilingualism with all its attendant bitterness. Ironically, it is the debate over the ballot initiatives themselves that has created...
Over on View, a hip late-night hybrid of 60 Minutes and MTV, co-hosts "Alex" Lyubimov, 26, and "Dima" Zakharov, 30, prefer what they jokingly call the "rough and macho" look. They wear T shirts and blue jeans. At times they may seem a bit cocky, inviting viewers to send in such oddities as leaden macaroni mixes or bread loaves containing glass chips for their "museum of shoddy goods." But they are as earnest as Molchanov in exploring the boundaries of glasnost...