Word: latches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meuer explained that the new technique involves producing antibodies that do not destroy the T-cells, but rather, latch onto the T-cells, but rather, latch onto the T-cells and prevent them from causing damage...
...propensity to seize on one comforting truth and magnify it into the whole truth, blocking out all evidence of continuing or looming trouble. Says one former aide: "You have to be careful with him. If you had nine bad items to tell him and one good one, he would latch on to the tenth favorable item and discount the other nine. The blind spots are very troubling...
...will be ten years next week since a security guard named Frank Wills discovered a piece of tape on the latch of a door in the Watergate complex in Washington. He called the police, and thereby began the destruction of Richard Nixon's presidency. The survivors of Watergate will not be holding reunions. No one died at Watergate, of course, as the bumper stickers say-meaning, rather heavily, that Chappaquiddick was worse. But 25 people went to jail, and Nixon became the first President in Amen can history to leave the White House one step ahead of impeachment...
...motion sickness. The ship itself also suffered a recurrence of an old ailment: during lift-off it lost several dozen heat-shielding tiles. As Columbia whirled 150 miles above the earth, still other things began to go wrong-two television cameras failed, the $1.2 million toilet clogged, a latch on the cargo-bay doors temporarily jammed, mysterious static rang in the astronauts' ears, and a teleprinter spilled paper wildly. The most serious failure came when gremlins knocked out some of the shuttle's radio links, briefly raising fears that there might be a premature halt to the mission...
Mark Fusco picked up the pack at the blueline and the loose a screamer that Dennis managed to get his stick in front of but couldn't latch on to. The rebound bounced nicely out to the stick of Chalmers, who gently backhanded it into on open met for a 1-0 Crimson lead and the game-winning goal...