Word: krim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this accord, if we had not had the assistance of your government." State Department officials spoke admiringly of the "tireless work"-and the "imagination and understanding" displayed throughout the ten weeks of ceaseless negotiations by the three chief Algerian envoys: Ambassador to Washington Redha Malek, Ambassador to Tehran Abdel-krim Ghraieb, and Central Bank Governor Mohammed Seghir Mostefai...
...mechanism of IF's defense against viruses has also emerged. Explains Mathilde Krim, a researcher at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: "Interferon is a kind of chemical Paul Revere." When a virus invades a cell, instead of turning out the proteins needed to sustain the cell and other parts of the body, the manufacturing plant begins to produce carbon copies of the virus. Eventually bloated with the alien bodies, the cell almost literally comes apart at the seams and dies, spilling out its cargo of new viruses, which promptly move toward healthy cells to repeat the process...