Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Iacocca's new venture faces a long, steep climb to success. The E-Bike is already nine months late to market (at an entrepreneurial burn rate of $150,000 a month) because of the technical difficulties in producing a finely tuned hybrid to Iacocca's exacting specifications. Instead of selling through bike dealers, EVG will peddle the E-Bike through auto dealers, where advertising budgets are gargantuan and Iacocca's credit impeccable...
Some researchers look forward to the day when gene therapy is used to repair damaged genes. With the new vectors, they would infect cells with small molecules that combine DNA and RNA. These hybrid molecules would seek out and bind to the defective gene, enabling it to function normally. "It would be like a repair mechanism," Wilson explains, "rather than a replacement...
...Scientists announce they have fused human cells with cow's eggs and created a hybrid cell. (Suggested co-star: Elsie...
...points and fees up front. And if you can recover those costs in less than half the time you'll be staying in the house (but no longer than four years), it's not a bad choice. Also, if you plan to move in the next few years, a "hybrid mortgage"--with which the rate is constant for three, five or seven years and then goes adjustable--could make the most sense...
Director Paul Anderson envisions Soldier as a sci-fi/western hybrid, perhaps something along the lines of Road Warrior or Waterworld. Apart from barren settings, however, the three films have little in common. Soldier takes itself quite seriously, but the story's take-home message is so blatantly obvious that viewers may wonder whether the movie is actually some sort of farce poking fun at itself. Subtly crafted lines such as "My daddy always said, `If you want to put a nail in a board, you don't do anything fancy, you just use a hammer'" spoil any hope...