Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the greatest marathoner could keep up that pace forever. If the virus reproduced very quickly, it would eventually exhaust the body's defenses. At least that's what Ho and Shaw thought. The trick to proving their idea was to find some way to suddenly stop the treadmill. If you did that to a jogger, he would lurch forward. Similarly, if you stopped HIV's cycle of reproduction in the blood, the immune system should suddenly rebound. By measuring that rebound, the scientists hoped to figure out just how rapidly the virus had been reproducing...
...donors. In January, Trie attended a D.N.C. finance-board breakfast at Washington's Hay Adams hotel, where party chairman Don Fowler asked the party's top 110 fund raisers to each raise $350,000 by Election Day. Rainmakers from Texas and Massachusetts balked at Fowler's demand, calling the pace unrealistic. But not Trie...
...fact is that genetic engineering "breakthroughs" are coming along at an incredibly slow pace. Human benefits are 30 years or more away, too late for 78 million baby boomers who need help now. Why neglect what we already have in hand? The already proven benefits of DHEA hormone therapy are enormously impressive. In human studies, DHEA has been shown to dramatically decrease risk to cardiovascular disease and restore immune balance, thereby decreasing risk to autoimmune disorders. While genetic engineers strive year after year to make fruit flies and worms live longer, real people are using DHEA and achieving very satisfying...
Feaster, last year's Ivy League Player of the Year, drained a cool 12-of-23 from the floor, hitting 3-of-6 from three-point range for 30 points and grabbed 18 rebounds to pace the Harvard game...
...than tripled its revenue, to just shy of $600 million. But most of that growth was generated by a kind of fiscal illusion. The company boosted sales not by attracting more and more corpses to its existing mortuaries but rather by buying up funeral homes at an increasingly fast pace...