Word: portions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Institute for Immunological Disorders in Houston. Both have applied for permission to test vaccines on humans. Testing is already being done by Dr. Daniel Zagury of Paris' Pierre and Marie Curie University. Zagury included himself among twelve healthy people who received an experimental vaccine made up of a portion of the AIDS virus inserted into a larger, usually harmless virus called vaccinia. They also received a booster shot of their own cells that had been treated with the vaccinia. The volunteers, he reported, showed signs of antibodies to the AIDS virus. Nonetheless, warned Zagury, "we do not want to give...
...under the old aphorism that "Those who can't do, teach." Nowadays, however, the grim economics of the writer's trade make it almost essential that even successful authors and poets find a steady supplement to their royalties. The majority of America's best authors make at least a portion of their livelihood from teaching writing at universities, fulfilling the literary pretensions of the young while adding a little sparkle to dry English departments...
Despite the urgency of economic concerns, only a portion of the Venice summit will be devoted to economic issues. The leaders will blanket as many pressing issues as possible. First among them will be Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's challenging proposal to remove short- and intermediate-range nuclear weapons from Europe. Other conversations will probably focus on the defense of Persian Gulf oil traffic following the attack on the U.S. frigate Stark, the international war against drugs, the fight against the AIDS virus, and terrorism...
...Whoa. This is a hominid," crowed Anthropologist Tim White when he spotted the first bone fragment, a portion of an elbow, lying on a layer of sand. Looking down, Expedition Leader Donald Johanson shouted, "There's part of a humerus right next to it!" That July 1986 find in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge marked the beginning of a startling discovery that was formally unveiled last week by White and Johanson. The team of ten U.S. and Tanzanian scientists unearthed 302 fossil bones and teeth that have yielded a more complete picture of modern humans' earliest direct ancestor, Homo habilis...
Over the years the Bacardi heirs have established a complicated network of independent companies stretching from Mexico to Europe. Many of them share the same officers, and all stick to the same standards for producing Bacardi rum. Puerto Rico-based Bacardi Corp. is the only portion of the empire that is a publicly traded company, and that is the point of contention. Last year Bacardi Corp.'s two top officers, Chairman Alfred O'Hara and President Manuel Luis Del Valle, launched a campaign to take the Bacardi Corp. private. In a proxy statement, they said such a move would "reduce...