Word: materiallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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All but drowning in his newfound wealth, the 44-year-old entrepreneur began spending, and spending, and spending. He surprised his wife and two teenage sons with a refrigerator and a color television set. He acquired an electric fan and a grandfather clock. He bought a washing machine and a...
One of the paradoxical effects of the transformation is that some of those who join the party these days--and all Chinese are free to do so except those directly implicated in the excesses of the Cultural Revolution--are joining not out of ideological conviction but out of straightforward pragmatism...
While a falling dollar could boost U.S. inflation by raising import prices, the economists were confident that any increases will remain mild. They noted that labor costs, which make up some 65% of the retail value of most products, are continuing to rise at a modest pace. Raw material prices...
employing the lure of material wealth to build his country into a true world power. See WORLD.
HRV14 is marvelously complex; its genetic material is surrounded by a 20- sided outer shell that vaguely resembles a soccer ball. The sides consist of three identical triangles each containing three proteins on its irregular surface, and one below it. On the surface proteins, the researchers discovered, features that resemble...