Word: pose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This episode ends happily, and so do all of Frazier's stories. The reader winds up laughing and knowing a great deal about subjects -- bears in northwestern Montana, a pair of madcap Soviet emigre artists -- that most people can live without. The author's loopy laziness is a pose; he works carefully and hard to make everything look like...
Measles does pose a serious threat to those with health problems, says Kennedy. "But we don't have a high risk population here at Exeter, else we would not have been so fortunate," she adds...
...behind the befuddled pose lurked one of Washington's shrewdest and most agile minds -- an avid reader with a remarkable memory. Casey's skills at deception, in fact, helped him launch his career with the secretive Office of Strategic Services in World War II (he planted spies in Nazi-occupied Europe) and finally brought him his last and highest post, as a CIA director who particularly favored covert operations...
...from 25 to 19. The P.F.P. was the official opposition party in the outgoing Parliament, but that role will now be assumed by the Conservatives. The New Republic Party, another liberal group, lost four of its five seats. Acknowledged Progressive Leader Colin Eglin: "I cannot deny that the results pose a major setback for the P.F.P. and the concept of a reform alliance developing into an alternative government. There is no doubt that the election in its totality represents a lurch to the right...
...current experiments, almost everyone agrees, do not pose any such threat. They involve a modest bit of genetic engineering on the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae, a common parasite that lives on the bark and leaves of many plants. The bacterium produces a protein that serves as a seed for the formation of ice crystals when the temperature drops below 32 degrees F. By snipping the seed-making gene from the DNA of the microbe, Berkeley Plant Pathologists Steven Lindow and Nickolas Panopoulos created a mutant form of P. syringae that does not promote frost. They call their new microbe "ice- minus...