Word: markers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...through the prism of education, his signature "big idea" back then. But White House aides say that after the Columbia disaster, Bush became intent on reviving NASA, pushing for a concrete, results-oriented plan and dismissing an incremental option that focused merely on exploring the outer cosmos. "Set the marker," says an aide paraphrasing him. "Don't leave it to interpretation. Don't let people wonder. It's not the cosmos. We mean Mars...
...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...
...vivid demonstration, Dowling attaches GFP protein to the promoter regions of photoreceptor genes, so that a highly fluorescent protein is produced. This serves as a marker for how the rod cells develop and, as Dowling notes, “it enables us to find mutants who have specific defects in the development of photoreceptor cells.” This marker helps to mutant behavior to specific structural defects...
...performance against the Eagles, including a first period one-timer by junior Brendan Bernakevitch—a new addition to the unit—on a pristine cross-ice feed from Pettit. The goal gave Harvard a 2-1 lead, which it held until a BC power-play marker of its own tied the game nine minutes later...
Several of the Mahan-Blickstead posters in Eliot House have also been crossed out with black marker...