Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enabling the microbe to produce enzymes that either destroy or immobilize the most powerful antibiotics. Floating freely within the cells, the plasmids can be transferred from one microbe to another. When this happens, a bacterium once vulnerable to a drug can acquire a resistance to it and, more important, pass that genetic defense on to its descendants...
...bacteria, since the less hardy microbes are wiped out by the drugs. Opponents of the feed practice argue that even with relatively clean handling and packaging conditions, these bacteria could be transferred to meat and poultry products and eventually wind up in the human gastrointestinal tract. There they could pass on their defensive plasmids to resident bacteria in the gut. One strong piece of evidence: people who are often in contact with drug-containing animal feed or raw meat, like workers on farms or in slaughterhouses, have more drug-resistant bacteria in their intestines than do those in other occupations...
Reason: in its rush to adjourn, the state legislature failed to pass a law extending the life of the board that licenses and regulates psychologists. Since July 1 Florida's counties have issued local licenses to all comers. Bade County alone certified more than 200 psychologists in July, then had doubts and revoked the permits...
MBTA Board Chairman Robert Foster said last week the board probably will pass the agreement, which negotiators from Harvard and the MBTA have been working on since the spring...
Based on former Footballer Peter Gent's good novel, the film shows this sadomasochistic world through the eyes of Phillip Elliott (Nick Nolte), a pass catcher with good hands and, in the view of the coaches and owners, a bad attitude. Elliott's insouciance springs from a developing conviction that he and his mates are exploited (if well-paid) field hands, risking their lives, or anyway their health, to assuage their owner's ego and their coach's desire to turn them into ciphers...