Word: organization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozens of nerves, blood vessels, tendons, muscles and bones, but it's the sort of delicate operation that hand surgeons have been doing for years. The big question, when a borrowed hand is involved, is rejection. While new immunosuppressant drugs are improving the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants--from hearts and lungs to kidneys--a body part composed of as many different tissues as the hand poses special immunological challenges. A similar transplant was attempted in Ecuador in 1964, but the donor hand was rejected within two weeks...
...though not as massive as St. Peter's, this church seats a huge congregation, boasts a thunderous organ and requires an elevator to reach its chapel...
Warhol was the neon sign of the times, flashing SEX, GOSSIP, DEATH. His hunger for the machinery and trappings of fame thrust him beyond painting into filmmaking, with titles like Flesh and Trash; into music, fronting Lou Reed's rock band, the Velvet Underground; into publishing the gushing society organ Interview; even into the odd cameo appearance on TV. All these activities orbited the low-gravity center of the artist, with his blank stare and his wan voice that uttered such sibylline aphorisms as "I want to be a machine" and, most quoted of all, "In the future everyone will...
...others say the council elections cannot serve as a litmus test for campus activism because many students--whether or not they support activism--simply do not view the council as political organ...
...deaths of the old soldiers, but it is visible. New York's venerable Independent Royal Arch Lodge No. 2 boasts an average member age of about 50 and an unusual concentration of college-educated men. There are brokers, lawyers and journalists with interests running from martial arts to organ music to the Masonic references of James Joyce, explored in black tie over wine and cigars. Says John Chang, 39, a lawyer active in local Democratic politics: "Maybe now that my generation is getting a little bit more established with families, they're getting interested in organizations that are beholden...