Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first targets of gene therapy, many researchers have singled out three rare diseases that affect on the order of one birth per 100,000. In all cases the genes have already been isolated and extensively studied. What is more, biologists hope that for at least two of the disorders, only a tiny amount of the enzyme need be produced to alleviate the worst symptoms. The & likeliest candidates: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome; adenosine deaminase deficiency, an immune disorder of the type that killed the famous "Bubble Boy"; and purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency, another illness of the immune system. As investigators learn ever...
...distributors. Such is the spell of his silver tongue that a remarkable number of people quickly dismiss the information. In the blink of an eye, the pitch can slide from McClintic's shady years to his next project, vending fishing tackle. "This is going to be a barn burner!" Rare is the listener who then exclaims, "Wait a minute! Did you say LEAVENWORTH...
...Soviet Union's estimated 9 million alcoholics ranges from spending a night in a sobering-up center or a factory clinic to a term in a work camp for those who habitually appear drunk at work or in public. Western- style medical detoxification and counseling is still rare: only two hospitals and 23 out-patient centers serve Moscow, a city of 8.5 million people. According to widespread rumors, one recent patient was Grigory Romanov, Gorbachev's erstwhile competitor for the party leadership. After resigning from the ruling Politburo last July, Romanov, long thought to be a heavy drinker, is believed...
Large-scale student activism had been rare on American campuses for more than a decade when, in the spring of 1985, growing numbers of students at Harvard and elsewhere became increasingly concerned about issues connected with South Africa. Many demonstrations during that spring, including a mass rally in Harvard Yard, expressed dissent on this issue in a legitimate fashion. The free exercise of the rights of dissent is explicitly protected by the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. Unhappily, two incidents in the late spring, at 17 Quincy Street on April 24 and at Lowell House...
...anyone who agreed to buy a subscription to the paper (which is now defunct). After World War II it became a regular working-class town. Times Beach, like many Midwestern river settlements, had a tang more Southern than latitude alone could explain and a small-town coziness that is rare these days. People who liked it really liked it, and stayed. Land enough to build a house could be bought for $800, even after the local boom of the 1970s...