Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Facilitating this intense upsurge of activity was the development of specialized instruments and technologies to deal with the basic chemical mechanisms by which cells reproduce, develop, thrive, maintain their internal equilibrium, protect themselves against harm and communicate with one another. Medical disciplines such as immunology and genetics were suddenly freed from the limitations that had long constrained them...
...occurring, how far along the stroke has progressed and even whether various treatments are having an effect. Surgeons have also fine-tuned procedures in which they can perform preventive maintenance on some stroke-prone arteries. But the best is yet to come: researchers are developing medications that will actually protect portions of the brain from damage for as long as 12 hours after a stroke, giving doctors more time to restore normal blood flow...
...goes according to plan, Congress will leave Washington knowing that marriage is safe. Listening to debate about the bill, one began to wonder how America's foundation had survived so long without legal protection from gay couples indulging in adjustable-rate mortgages and life insurance. That is an interesting question for Congressman Barr, as is this: Which of his own marriages is he trying to protect: the first, the second or the third...
...make a sneak attack on society by encoding this aberrant behavior in legal form before society itself has decided it should be legal," the Times reported. This kind of statement begs a few questions: What exactly is it about marriage that makes it an institution we want to protect? Is the union of two people considered worthy in and of itself because of the investment each person puts into the relationship, the commitment one person has to another? Or is marriage only worthwhile for its procreative possibilities...
Many pundits feel Weld's easygoing, spontaneous sense of humor works to his advantage. The former Adams House resident suprised even his staff this summer by jumping into the Charles River after signing a bill to protect the state's water-sheds...