Word: learns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down in Israel by blundering Syrian pilots. The third was shot down and repaired with parts from other downed MIG-17s. The faster MIG-21 was flown to Israel by an Iraqi pilot paid to defect by Israeli intelligence. Israeli pilots study and fly all four planes to learn their characteristics...
...that they can experiment with a single gene, scientists may well learn how it orders the cell to produce vital proteins, and what substances cause the gene to "turn on" or "turn off." Ultimately, this could lead to the repair or replacement of defective genes and the cure of hereditary diseases...
...This year 82 young birds were born in the area, four times as many as last year. But an ecological balance is not easily restored; large game fish now have to be imported to feed on the wildly proliferating silversides. Once the game fish are established, Californians have to learn that the fishing is good at Clear Lake, and then...
What can the U.S. learn from the Scandinavians? Among other things, there could be more regular contact between labor and management negotiators, prior agreement to negotiate any point of conflict and earlier involvement of national unions in local disputes. Beyond that, the price for labor peace in the U.S. would require that both labor and management relinquish part of their cherished economic sovereignty. So far, the U.S. has not even begun to debate that question...
...Committee adopted the majority recommendation last Monday by a margin of three votes. That decision, too, was kept secret, and the Faculty did not learn of it until the next day. And even then it was asked to sit and listen...