Word: piggyback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some Girls languishing on tape somewhere, facing an unfamiliar time urgency (Billy Wyman is 42 and Keith Moon is dead) and a new solo ambition on Richards' part, the Stones have turned to the single as a way to introduce fresh music without the agony of launching an album piggyback on Some Girls. More can probably be expected in the new year...
Researchers must develop techniques to separate insulin from the piggyback molecule, to produce larger quantities of insulin, and to produce human insulin rather than rat insulin, he said...
Gilbert said that to insure the insulin would be excreted. the researchers inserted the insulin gene next to a gene for a protein the bacteria normally excreted. The insulin molecules rode "piggyback" on the excreted protein molecules across the bacterial membrane...
...cold, and where they dropped of hunger or cold or exhaustion, there they lay. There were the wheelbarrows, piled high with family goods, father pushing, mother pulling, children walking. Old ladies hobbled with bound feet; sometimes young men carried their mothers piggyback on their shoulders. No one stopped. If children cried over the body of a father or a mother, they were passed, soundlessly. I was seeing people in full flight, where no armed man pursued...
...oldtimers can also reduce the "piggyback problem": too few productive workers supporting too many nonproductive people. By staying at work, the older people would provide some relief for the overburdened, near-bankrupt Social Security system. Otherwise, that tax load could become intolerable. At present there are 30 Social Security beneficiaries for every 100 workers; early in the next century it is expected that there will be 52 recipients for every 100 workers. But Social Security officials caution against expecting more than a "minor" impact on the system from having the old work longer...