Word: locus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CLCS founded in 1984, has developed into an active humanities institution providing a locus for interdisciplinary discussions. The audience includes a mix of Harvard faculty and graduates as well as independent scholars and area residents...
Normally a locus of commercial activity, Central Square has recently been plagued by a decline in customers, due in part to an increase in crime and homelessness...
Councillor Alice K. Wolf said the Harvard Square area is particularly popular because "it's a locus. It's right at a T-station...
When the DNA locus of the encoding of these antibody producers was identified, he says, it was found that this locus was always involved in the same region as Burkitt's lymphoma. The insertion of the lymphoma abnormality, a gene known as c-myc, was responsible for the rise of the tumor...
Arafat is also caught in a political squeeze. The gulf leaders refuse his calls, and he is unwelcome in their countries. In addition, the emerging Saudi-Egyptian-Syrian axis cuts him out of the locus of power. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak feels personally betrayed by Arafat, and Syria's Hafez Assad has long disdained...