Word: primered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wool). Just how to accomplish such a major switch in industrial direction Commoner did not say and of course not much of what he hoped for came about. Now he is trying to close the circle in a different way. The Poverty of Power is a closely reasoned, adult primer on energy, examined in relation to several laws of science and economics. First are the laws of thermodynamics, which he uses to prove that fully 85% of the work potential in the nation's oil, coal and uranium is wasted. Commoner shows how the environment is harmed...
...team of researchers began by synthesizing a single strand of DNA. They then used an enzyme to add a complementary second strand, forming a complete gene. A "hook" of DNA material at the end of the first strand served as a "primer," or base for the enzyme activity, Fotis C. Kafatos, professor of Biology and one member of the team, said yesterday...
...plagued by "destructive emotions," but judging from his behavior, Skinner is still deeply concerned by "what people will think." His most recent book, About Behaviorism, is not only a behaviorist primer for non-professionals, it is also a direct answer to several years of criticism--criticism which negatively reinforced him to write such a book...
...their credit, the voyagers treat their predicament with the contempt it deserves. While describing the weather to Mercier, who cannot bear to look, Camier insults it in the careful cadences of French primer prose: "A pale raw blotch has appeared in the east, the sun presumably. Happily it is intermittent, thanks to a murk of tattered wrack driving from the west before its face...
...changes seem to have been made because Greenberg thought Smith's use of color in his late sculptures unsuccessful, and preferred plain steel to the white primer coats. "Clem never made any secret of his dislike of Smith's painted work," recalls former Guggenheim Museum Curator Edward Fry, who organized a major Smith retrospective...