Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cards are stacked against us as far as this particular legislative year, but I think it's important that we try" to pass it, Isaacson said...
...particular, Reagan objected to the plant-closing requirement, as well as provisions restricting the export of Alaskan oil. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the president would sign a new bill that deleted both sections...
...they gobble up anything that is foreign to the body. They envelop dust particles, pollutants, microorganisms and even the debris of battle: remnants of invaders and infected or damaged body cells. Other early warners direct the production of unique killer cells, each designed to attack and destroy a particular type of intruder. Some of the killers, alerted to body cells that have become cancerous, may annihilate these...
...grooves of some of its MHC molecules. Once a bit of protein -- which is part of the virus's own identity molecule, or antigen -- is nestled in the groove of the macrophage's MHC molecule, it acts as a red flag for the immune system, warning it that a particular type of virus is loose in the body...
...that circulate in the bloodstream and lymph system for many years, primed to spring into action should the same strain of flu virus ever attack again. In addition, the body is protected by specialized antibodies, strategically deployed in mucus, saliva and tears, that immediately recognize any return of this particular virus...