Word: prevented
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Peptide T, another promising substance for curbing the virus, received mixed reviews. Last December, Neuroscientist Candace Pert of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that the chemical, a synthetic portion of a protein on the AIDS virus that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world...
...Essentially, we're a city without municipal governance," complains Jack Knuepfer, chairman of the Du Page County board. "We're a city with 35 municipalities, nine townships and only the Lord knows how many special districts: fire districts, sanitary districts, school districts." The county government has been unable to prevent its component communities from following what Knuepfer describes as a "beggar thy neighbor" policy...
...reasonable to expect Harvard Real Estate, Inc. to remain quiet before it makes a purchase in order to prevent the seller from realizing Harvard's intentions and boosting the sale price. But there's no excuse for secrecy after purchases are made--unless the University is trying to keep the rest of Cambridge from knowing one simple fact: namely, that Harvard is entering a new phase of institutional expansion...
...semites as President A. Lawrence Lowell, (1877), Bok is also unusual for his liberal views. This political outlook, which some say has grown tarnished in recent years, was in part an outgrowth of his years at the Law School, where as dean he personally intervened in construction projects to prevent alleged discrimination against Black workers...
...retirements are pressuring the department to make appointments, the older cadre of professors has been accused of being responsibile for the lack of tenures. Outside scholars say that the older Americanists, commonly referred to as the "Old Guard", have formed a kind of club which has served to prevent the infusion of any new blood into the department...