Word: micros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because measles is a droplet infection, it mostly occurs in closed environments when little micro-droplets from breathing are carried along by dust or particles from hair spray," says Postel...
...used." But are items of manufacture necessarily inanimate? Apparently not. In 1930, Congress voted to approve the patenting of new plants produced by grafts, cuttings or other asexual methods. Half a century later the Supreme Court went even further and ruled that the law would apply to genetically engineered micro-organisms, such as a new strain of bacteria designed to gobble up oil spills. In the view of the court, "anything under the sun that is made by man" could be patented...
...Marissa Blumenthal, public health officer at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, finds herself caught between micro and macro killers in Robin Cook's newest medical tingler. She must solve two mysteries: how an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (mortality rate more than 90%) got from Central Africa to the U.S., and why it only strikes staff and patients at clinics with prepaid health-care plans. Physician-Novelist Cook enjoys stretching credulity (in his previous blockbuster Coma, people were murdered to provide organs for the transplant trade). Here a league of conservative doctors plays with the viral equivalent...
Although North has yet to tell his story to any Iranscam investigators, his memorandums are eloquent testimony to the fantastic nature of his activities. Those efforts were both macro and micro: he supervised the raising of millions of dollars in funds from South Korea and Taiwan while organizing numerous drops of munitions in Nicaragua. A hand-drawn chart that was found in North's office safe shows the complex path of money from private fund-raising organizations to various shadowy corporations. The chart suggests a link between two fund-raising organizations run by North's ally, Conservative Carl ("Spitz") Channell...
...something is done to help the chipmakers, it will be the result of + sustained lobbying by a trade group that boasts some of the country's biggest and most dynamic firms: IBM, AT&T, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices. For nearly two years they have vigorously complained that a vital and innovative industry was being destroyed not by bad business practices but by predatory competition. In a series of complaints filed with the U.S. Government, the industry alleged that the Japanese were using unfair trade practices in their zeal to penetrate the U.S. market. The smoking...