Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allende was properly flabbergasted. The vote surpassed the 36.2% that he himself had received when elected President in 1970, and it was three points above the 40% maximum predicted by the most optimistic Popular Unity pundits. What had happened? For one thing, the opposition had wrongly counted on defeating Allende...
Dr. Edmund Klein of Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo has used BCG to stimulate an immune reaction against malignant melanoma, mycosis fungoides and other cancers that originate on the skin, as well as against such deep-seated tumors as breast cancer. He has also experimented with vaccines made from...
Globules of sweat gathered on the young man's forehead as he sat stiffly next to the machine. A rubber tube was wound around his chest and wires were taped to his fingertips. Two squiggly blue lines on a roll of paper winding out of the machine marked the...
Every few days, Marshall saw to it that F.D.R. got a casualty chart with the figures marked in color. Otherwise, the Chief of Staff explained, "you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them in the forefront of your mind." bed of "Making...
Teaching has been a valuable aspect of the professional training of graduate students. A marked change in their attitude toward teaching is forced by the Kraus Plan which shifts the emphasis to the financial value of teaching. The real salary paid for each unit of teaching has been reduced because...