Word: pendentives
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...theory is that cancer growth is de- pendent upon capillary growth, and that if onecan stop capillary growth, cancer growth will haltas well...
Warfarin, known in North America by its trade name Coumadin, works by blocking Vitamin K-de-pendent factors involved in clotting activation. But because warfarin slows clotting, the drug can be dangerous to patients prone to ulcers or head injuries, which can cause life-threatening internal bleeding...
...collision of chivalry and jealousy at center court, Beatrice and Benedick stood on the sidelines, exchanged waspish badinage and transformed supporting roles into star turns. This time around, Sinead Cusack (who need no longer be known only as Mrs. Jeremy Irons) makes Beatrice every inch the lady of hide-pendent mind. Derek Jacobi's Benedick begins abubble with adolescent spirits, sighing and whinnying like a high school boy who won't admit that he is in love with the college queen. As flirtation ripens into passion, Jacobi's performance becomes calmer and more mature. This Benedick finally...
Under the government's long-term plan for "separate development," South Africa's 20 million blacks are being designated citizens of the various new "inde pendent homelands," such as Transkei and Bophuthatswana, regardless of where they happen to live. The plan, in depriving blacks of South African citizenship, ensures that whites will be the majority group within South Africa. But that still leaves the coloreds and the Asians, who cannot be disposed of so neatly under the legerdemain of apartheid...
...letter, said to have been handed to Berlinguer by a Soviet embassy official in late December, begins "Dear Comrades" and signs off with "Fraternal Greetings"-but that is the extent of the cordiality. Taking a swipe at the inde pendent Polish unions, the message accuses Berlinguer's party of disloyalty for siding with them. The P.C.I. 's December communique, it noted, did not "support the socialism that actually exists in Poland but shows solidarity with those forces that have unleashed a real and serious offensive against Polish socialism." Sounding a familiar chord, the Soviet party leadership wondered...