Word: marker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
Like a runner trained for long distances, America's economic expansion is showing remarkable staying power, if not robust speed. The U.S. recovery, which passed the four-year marker in November, just keeps chugging ahead in spite of ever present doubts and dangers along the road. Since its start in 1982, the expansion has been refreshed at crucial intervals, first by the plunge of interest rates and later by the fall of oil prices. Now, at 49 months and counting, the durable recovery is already the second longest peacetime boom in U.S. history, after the 58-month expansion...
...UCSD team quickly realized that the successful harnessing of luciferase might yield other benefits. If the firefly gene was a simple, straightforward and easily manipulated one-gene-one-enzyme system (some enzymes require the cooperative efforts of several genes), it might be possible to use it as a $ marker, or "reporter," gene. "We lucked out," says Helinski. "It did turn out to be a single gene that we could manipulate...
...stories, old faces. The reunion party motored a couple of miles away to the site of Camp Stark, now nothing but a clearing at the edge of the White Mountain National Forest, a couple of tumbled stone fireplaces and a new highway marker sketching its history. Historian Koop, who had organized the affair and is writing a book about Stark, spoke of "rugged hills and gentle people" and quoted the truthful remark of one old resident that "yup, things have been kinda slow since they closed the camp." Hartmut Lang, a young official from the German consulate in Boston, said...
Scherrer believes that the squad's performance in its practices as opposed to its showing in actual competition serves as "a marker for how we'll do in the end of the season...