Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...design of tenure is to protect academic freedom-and the difficulty of dismissing a professor based on academic work may be best illustrated by the case of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at the Medical School...
...Asian economic woes at a stroke. "Nobody's out of the woods just yet," Kadlec adds. "There are fundamental problems in the Asian economies that haven't gone away, and that are not going anywhere." Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's Beijing-appointed chief executive, still intends to protect the former colony's currency peg of around eight HK dollars to the U.S. dollar ? and he's got $85 billion in gold reserves with which...
...protect us both. May He nourish us. May we acquire the capacity, to study and understand the scriptures. May our study be brilliant. May we not cavil at each other...
Jiang: I believe the most important, the most fundamental human right is how to ensure that the 1.2 billion Chinese people have adequate food and clothing. The rights and freedoms that our people enjoy today are unprecedented. Our consistent policy is to protect human rights according to law. Human rights and the system for the protection of human rights in China are advancing. These are the facts for everyone...
...they could do something about that. First, they treated women with a 10-day regimen of hormones that stimulated the ovaries to produce a batch of eggs, which were then harvested. Next, they bathed the eggs in a chemical solution similar to the one the ovaries use to protect them. Finally, they injected the ova with antifreeze, placed them in a freezer that slowly lowered their temperature, and then thawed them just as gradually. The plan seemed to be a good one, but time and again it failed--just as it had failed for other scientists who had tried similar...