Word: injection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compressed Finnish Gold Medalist Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen's 10-km cross-country ski race into a montage of snow-hazed spurts of ardent labor that made her final collapse seem an inevitable part of the effort. Hockey Commentator Al Michaels could probably inject excitement into a pinochle game, although he shared in ABC's unrealistic buildup of the young, inexperienced U.S. team. As a taped image showed U.S. Downhill Skier Bill Johnson during a pell-mell training run, he explained each turn of the course and keyed viewers to the danger spots...
...response to O.L. Brannaman's Letter to the Editor (1/16/84), perhaps it would be best to inject a little common sense...
Whatever the state of Andropov's health may be, some Western experts are now starting to draw a far deeper conclusion about the state of affairs in the Soviet Union. In the year since he assumed power, Andropov has failed to inject the country with a new and forceful sense of direction. Instead, the Soviet Union has fallen back into the same kind of drift and indecision that characterized Brezhnev's waning years...
...million Ibs. the U.S. produces annually is used to keep leaded gasoline from fouling auto engines. Because the chemical is added at refineries in a closed system and breaks down during engine combustion, such use is considered safe enough. The danger comes from agricultural practice: growers inject it into citrus grove soils to control rootworms, and exporters fumigate some $29 million worth of fruit with it to meet foreign quarantine laws...
...present role, the office is more involved in making sure that all the research labs meet federal guidelines, and that the researches are aware of the regulations. For example, Harding says, when a researcher wants to inject a virus into mice he or she must take certain safety precautions so that other researchers as well as other animals in the laboratory are protected...