Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most questions, now, the answer is still, "We don't know," but Groopman says they are making progress. The most recent discovery came out of both laboratories simultaneously, and may lead scientists to an understanding of how the virus damages the neurological system...
...gene may also prove useful in diagnosing the stages of AIDS--a disease which has killed more than 11,300 Americans. Diagnostic tests screen the blood for antibodies to different parts of a virus and predict the progress of a disease. The art-gene produces a viral protein which researchers may be able to use in these sorts of tests...
Modest economic progress, however, could be destroyed in a moment by another military coup. The government is confident that the Garcia Meza trial will not provoke one, but many officials privately doubt whether the former dictator will be brought to justice...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) developed a 600-page "TMI Action Plan," which outlined the major weaknesses in nuclear power plants in the U.S.--unreliable equipment, faculty backup cooling systems, insufficient operator training, poorly designed control rooms, inadequate data displays, etc. And to the NRC's credit, much progress has been made--in operator training, control rooms, pipe repairs...
...more pleased with the company's progress than Chairman Roberto Goizueta, 54. Says he: "My job is not to be right. It is to produce results." The Cuban-born executive, trained as a chemist, has generated criticism aplenty since he took the helm in 1980. Some of that controversy began well before he tampered with Merchandise 7X, the secret Coke formula that has been kept under corporate lock and key ever since the soft drink's invention...