Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poll commissioned by WEEIAM, WCVB-TV and The Boston Globe had error margins of plus or minus 9 percent regarding the Democrats and Republicans most likely to attend the caucuses and of plus or minus 5 percent for the overall Democrat and Republicans samples...
FOOTNOTE: *The survey was conducted by telephone with 1,804 adult Americans. The potential sampling error is plus or minus...
...Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, the specter of a return to the "bad old days" now looms large, particularly after the temporary fall of Goria's coalition in November. Laments Treasury Secretary Giuliano Amato: "Item by item, you go through the list of changes, and every plus is now a minus." After Goria offered his resignation, President Francesco Cossiga asked him to try again, and Goria quickly returned to office with a new vote of confidence. But the next political crisis was already waiting in the wings...
...been a year of dramatic progress and turbulence for scientists experimenting for the first time outside the lab with genetically engineered bacteria. This past April, California scientists made the first outdoor tests of ice-minus, a bacterium genetically altered to retard frost formation on leaves. Only four months later, Montana State University Professor Gary Strobel created a national outcry when it became known that he had flouted strict federal regulations by failing to get approval before injecting elm trees with bacteria designed to combat Dutch elm disease. This week Clemson University scientists, mindful of public fears about the escape...
...crucial factor in getting EPA approval for a release. The lack of an effective marker has, for example, held up a test by Biotechnica International, a Cambridge, Mass., firm, of Rhizobium bacteria altered to boost their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil. In one of the California ice- minus tests, however, scientists have been able to monitor the spread of anti- icing bacteria on potato plants. The marker system in this case was rifampicin resistance, less sensitive than Monsanto's multiple indicator but still able to detect the presence of as few as 100 bacteria in a handful...