Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson opened the meet in a style that would have made Miss Manners proud...
...first attempt at 5-ft., 9-in., Buchen stumbled on the approach. Sugrue followed, sailing easily over the standard. Buchen cleared the height on her second attempt, but trailed by one miss...
Both women failed on three tries at 6-ft., and Sugrue was awarded the victory by virtue of Buchen's early miss...
Still, the Berkeley team was not satisfied with its hit-and-miss method of creating frost-inhibiting bacteria, and set about producing them by gene- splicing techniques. For meaningful experiments, enough of the bacteria had to be sprayed on test plants to overwhelm the natural variety. But the release into the environment of any genetically engineered microbes in those days required the nod of the National Institutes of Health recombinant-DNA committee,* which in 1983 approved the Berkeley scientists' proposal to conduct their test at a tiny potato patch near the city of Tulelake in Northern California...
...really miss having guys as friends. Not having guys around makes the atmosphere in the library much more intense," Goldman says...