Word: key
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Birtwell's going to be a key to our season, definitely," Walsh said. "I was happy about his approach, his quickness and his ability to throw three pitches, especially his changeup, for strikes...
...Malley describing Smith as a "computer guy" who "originated [Melissa] at his apartment in Aberdeen, New Jersey." Smith is being held at the Monmouth County Jail. Technicians from America Online were apparently involved in the state and federal manhunt, helping trace an AOL account that had been hijacked. Also key was a controversial serial number encoded surreptitiously by some Microsoft programs...
...conference in Naples, Watson saw a vague, ghostly image of a DNA molecule rendered by X-ray crystallography. DNA, he had heard, might be the stuff genes are made of. "A potential key to the secret of life was impossible to push out of my mind," he later wrote. "It was certainly better to imagine myself becoming famous than maturing into a stifled academic who had never risked a thought...
...cancer in 1958, at 37. In 1962 the Nobel Prize, which isn't given posthumously, went to Watson, Crick and Wilkins. In Crick's view, if Franklin had lived, "it would have been impossible to give the prize to Maurice and not to her" because "she did the key experimental work." And her role didn't end there. Her critique of an early Watson and Crick theory had sent them back to the drawing board, and her notebooks show her working toward the solution until they found it; she had narrowed the structure down to some sort of double helix...
Here--in the "complementarity" between A and T, between C and G--lay the key to replication. In the double helix, a single strand of genetic alphabet--say, CAT--is paired, rung by rung, with its complementary strand, GTA. When the helix unzips, the complementary strand becomes a template; its G, T and A bases naturally attract bases that amount to a carbon copy of the original strand, CAT. A new double helix has been built...