Word: inner
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...brain known as the substantia nigra. This region serves as a production center for dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter that helps govern such voluntary actions as walking and speaking. As it happens, there is another site in the body, outside the brain, that produces substantial amounts of dopamine: the inner core of the adrenal glands. By transferring dopamine-producing adrenal cells into the brain, Dr. Ignacio Madrazo and his colleagues hoped to replenish the supply of this neurotransmitter and thus restore normal function...
While McDonald's once avoided inner-city neighborhoods, it now pushes into depressed areas where some other nationwide chains would fear to make any investment. Says Company President Quinlan: "Often we're the only bright, shiny thing around. Sometimes we're even the showcase." A total of some 650, or 9%, of McDonald's U.S. outlets are owned by blacks and Hispanics; to boost that average, 45% of potential owners currently in training are members of minority groups...
Kinnock had no reason to expect warm amiability. After all, at the moment he was in the Oval Office, and a book of speeches by Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was being prepared for April publication with a glowing foreword by the President. She is a woman of "unshakable inner confidence, even serenity" in the face of crisis, Reagan writes. Too bad, he adds, that Mrs. T. has to go through those "hostile sessions" in the House of Commons called Prime Minister's Question Time, when she is subjected to "heckling" by the opposition. Chief among Thatcher's tormentors...
...males of the Old West eyeballing the first shipment of schoolmarms from back East, the porn industry (estimated annual U.S. sales: $8 billion) is beginning to reshape itself to accommodate women. The pressure is largely an unforeseen by-product of the VCR revolution. Males who once trekked to sleazy inner-city theaters began to take porn videotapes home. Wives and lovers started to make their opinions felt, and their voices began to affect the market...
...Iowa visit this week, Dukakis, who is a latecomer to the Democratic field, was concentrating on more basic matters than fundraising. He needed to make favorable contacts with the inner circle of Iowa Democrats--legislators, labor leaders, party officials and activists...