Word: injection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to regard his mysterious behind-the-scenes maneuverings as anything short of mediation. Wright's attempts to edge the Sandinistas and contras closer to talks made the Reagan Administration uneasy, if not downright furious. "We don't think it's desirable for the U.S. to inject itself directly into these talks," said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman. Fitzwater was blunter. "Anytime you start seeing stories of independent plans," he said, "you have to start being a little nervous." Others in Washington charged that Wright's horse trading usurped Reagan's foreign policy authority. Said Republican Senator John McCain...
Plant Pathologist Gary Strobel knew that he needed permission from the Environmental Protection Agency to inject genetically altered bacteria into 14 trees in the hope of protecting them from Dutch elm disease. But the approval process can take months, and the Montana State University professor wanted to get on with his experiment. So in June he made the injections anyway...
...acid test for the vaccine, of course, would be for Zagury to inject himself with live AIDS virus to see if he is truly protected. But that, he admits, "would be crazy." The next best thing is to test the vaccine in people who, because of their life-style or environment, have a high risk of being exposed to AIDS. Zagury took a step in this direction late last November when, with approval from the government in Kinshasa, he gave his experimental vaccine to eight healthy volunteers in Zaire, a country where AIDS is rampant. If they remain free...
Student Five: I'm the guy who is actually interested in the material. I'm a real pain in the neck to everybody else because I occasionally inject meaningful statements into the discussion, forcing specific and relevant conversation. I am despised by the "arguer" who often gets trapped by my tendency to direct the conversation towards what is important. Some call me a "geek" for my actions...
...attraction of the topic does not explain why writers insist on making dramatic molehills out of this political mountain (were George Bernard Shaw alive today, he might have been able to inject some new dramatic tension into the form, but in all likelihood we would have gotten another Back to Methuselah instead of a Major Barbara). What prompts people like Kopit to encroach upon the territory of nuclear arms gurus like Jonathan Schell or Joe Nye, when Kubrick beat them to the atomic punch 24 years...