Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Immunity. Some studies have shown a marked reduction in white blood cell response, the body's prime defense against infection, in marijuana smokers.
Picault, however, had a different story and in September told it to the DEA in Paris. Bario, he said, had allowed him to keep the coke in order to split the profits from its sale. DEA investigators eavesdropped as Picault set up a meeting with Bario in Chicago's...
Tributsch acknowledges that his theory is based largely on old or inexact observations. The ancient Greeks and Romans regarded fogs, strange clouds and eerie lights as precursors of earthquakes. These atmospheric phenomena, suggests Tributsch, may have been of an electrical nature. Indeed, a 1976 U.S. Geological Survey conference on animal...
No small part of sidewalk sales' allure is the buyer's happy suspicion that he is getting a bargain on hot goods. Police note that most of the merchandise is legally obtained from wholesalers, but there are bargains to be had. In midtown Manhattan, Carl Britt of Newark...
Improved relations with China open new opportunities for policy-makers as well. American Asian policy for the last 30 years--highlighted by two wars--has been marked by diplomacy ignorantly conceived and irrationally executed. Without communication with the dominant nation in the region or an understanding of the cultural background...