Word: inhibitive
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Neither drug promises to cure AIDS, but both appear to inhibit reproduction of the virus that causes the deadly disease, researchers said...
...word-for-word translation of the American Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibits banks from underwriting corporate securities. In addition, the Japanese have restrictive rules on the interest rates that banks can pay depositors. Says Nobuya Hagura, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo: "The regulations are outdated, and they inhibit business performance...
...press has learned from experience that there are two kinds of expensive libel suits: the ones it loses and the ones it wins. Even meritless complaints can lead to costly court battles, a threat that can inhibit even the wealthiest news organizations. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court gave the news media important relief with a ruling that encourages judges to dismiss unworthy suits before they go to trial...
...identification of the art-gene is important because it sheds new light on how the virus controls its reproduction. It is also significant because it opens the possibility of developing a drug which would inhibit the workings of the art-gene, and, by extension, prevent the AIDS virus from reproducing...
...permit to field test Frostban marked still another in a series of frustrating delays. As long ago as 1982, the company began partly financing the research efforts of Steven Lindow and Nickolas Panopoulos, plant pathologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who were attempting to engineer bacteria that would inhibit the formation of frost on plants. Their long-range goals: to extend the growing season and reduce crop damage caused by unseasonal frosts, which costs U.S. farmers at least $1.5 billion every year...