Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students wanting to escape the usual 9-5 desk job or competitive internship should remember that along with the glory come gut-strewn factory floors and frozen fingers. A summer spent working in Alaska means long hours, hard physical labor and even the potential loss of limb...
There's a difference between being apathetic and being unopinionated. Lack of opinion indicates an interest, but lack of willingness to commit. It indicates a concern, but a lack of desire to fight, or to put yourself on a limb. Having no opinions is disturbingly safe...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when the don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
Next, Riddle said, researchers must demonstrate that Sonic hedgehog is necessary as well as sufficient for limb development...
Daniel G. Jay, Loeb associate professor of the natural sciences, was enthusiastic about the teams' results. "I think their research is quite significant," said Jay, who studies neurodevelopment. "It's the first real clue as to the polarizing activity in the limb area and the nervous system...