Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Wall Street seemed to get the message. In rapid-fire announcements made on the eve of congressional hearings on program trading, six major securities firms -- Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, PaineWebber, Bear Stearns, Kidder Peabody and Dean Witter -- announced that they would halt index arbitrage for their own accounts, at least for the time being. With the exception of Bear Stearns, which will stop all index arbitrage, the firms will continue to execute such trades for customers who request them...
...that occur as B cells divide into plasma cells, such genes, in theory at least, could account for as many as 10 million antibody variations. Other scientists have shown that T cells have a similar mechanism. Thus within the slowly evolving human being, the immune system is undergoing a rapid internal evolution of its own. And a good thing too. "If all we had to meet the microorganisms was true evolution," says NIH's William Paul, "we'd long ago have disappeared from the face of the earth...
...week's Democratic primaries offered a breather in the schedule after a rapid-fire series of industrial state contests ending last week in Indiana and Ohio and pointing the way toward contests in Oregon next week and California in early June...
With more than 14,000 similar applications pending, the mouse patent shows that we must come to grips with important questions on the ethics and regulation of the newly realized area of biotechnology. The rapid growth of genetic engineering developments is forcing us to decide how far we as a society are willing to let the bounds of science...
Washington and Islamabad then realized Moscow was serious about leaving Afghanistan, and with that certain points already agreed upon turned into problems. For example, in 1985 the U.S. promised to cut off aid to the rebels once the Soviets began to leave Afghanistan, provided their withdrawal was rapid enough. But now some U.S. officials and legislators felt such a move would leave the resistance dangerously exposed. Islamabad balked because the Geneva proposals did not make provisions for the removal of the Najibullah regime, the most important demand of the mujahedin...