Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, Burroughs Wellcome made some crucial breakthroughs in developing AZT. The company designed and executed a six-step manufacturing process to convert a key ingredient, thymidine, a biological chemical first harvested from herring sperm, into AZT. Contends company spokeswoman Kathy Bartlett: "We're the ones who turned this useless chemical into useful medicine...
...like taking a puppy for a walk. People want to pat its stubby little muzzle (which looks as if it is not quite ready for the big world, since it lacks a conventional front bumper). They tell you about sports cars they owned, and when they get to the part where they sold the old XK 120, they look stricken...
...jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian Resistance claimed responsibility, as part of a campaign to rid Africa of "all military colonial forces...
...measured Braque was spurred into radical experiment. It marks, more clearly than any other, the point at which modern art broke away from commonsense vision and split its audience into a tiny coterie who "got it" and a large majority who did not. By making the process of creation part of its subject, it ushered in the self-reflexiveness of modernism: art thinking about...
...when he returns to the Soviet Union.) "Mikhail Gorbachev's new proposals ((for liberalizing the economy)) fit in exactly with what we think about independent farming," says Ralph Dull. "We were very interested in the changes taking place in Soviet agriculture, and we wanted to be part of that change...