Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politburo member Viktor P. Nikonov, who serves as deputy to Ligachev in the latter's role as chief of the party's commission on agriculture, received 26 "no" votes...
...Press, a member of the Sloan grant selection committee, said fellowship funds can be used for equipment, technical assistance, professional assistance, professional travel, trainee support or other activities directly related to the fellows' research...
...Warsaw Pact has the bizarre distinction of being the only alliance in history that has occupied or invaded not enemy territory but that of its own member states: East Germany '53, Hungary '56, Czechoslovakia '68. The imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981 was nothing less than a Soviet- backed military coup d'etat within the Communist Party...
Other evidence that interlocked terrorist groups are growing bold enough to strike in the U.S. came last April. Yu Kikumura, identified by federal prosecutors as a member of the Japanese Red Army, was arrested on the New Jersey Turnpike with pipe bombs designed to injure humans rather than damage buildings. He carried maps pinpointing targets in New York City. Prosecutors claimed his intended attack would have occurred on the second anniversary of the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya. For unsuspecting Americans, the battle against international terrorism may be coming close to home...
...better technology became available -- proceed to reading the entire genetic message. Most of the remaining critics were silenced last fall when the NIH chose the respected Watson as project director. Still, some scientists remain wary of the project. Says David Botstein, a vice president at Genentech and a member of the Human Genome Advisory Committee: "We need to test its progress, regulate its growth and slap it down if it becomes a monster. Jim Watson understands the dangers as well...