Word: reached
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...relief effort until you reach the spot here has been very good," said Sverre Kilde, a Norwegian U.N. officer. "But here on the spot there is no control...
...been one of the biggest copyright battles ever. Last week arbitrators disclosed a settlement in the case, which began in 1982 when IBM accused Fujitsu of illegally copying Big Blue operating-system software to use in the Japanese manufacturer's IBM-compatible machines. Based on a secret accord reached a year ago, Fujitsu is paying IBM $833 million for use of the software. Until 1997, Fujitsu will also pay an annual fee that may reach $51 million next year...
...VLDL boats unload their triglycerides into body tissues, the carriers get progressively smaller, denser and proportionately more cholesterol-rich, ultimately becoming particles of LDL. The LDLs are then pulled out of the bloodstream by special protein receptors on the surface of cells. "These receptors reach out and grab cholesterol like a first baseman catching a ball thrown by a shortstop," says Dr. Michael Brown of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who, with his colleague Dr. Joseph Goldstein, won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for discovering LDL receptors. What happens to excess LDLs that are not taken...
Founded in the early and mid-'70s, Ms. and Mother Jones were committed to popularizing then radical causes such as equal rights for women, environmentalism and corporate responsibility. Unlike political-opinion magazines that are content to reach a small but influential audience, Ms. and Mother Jones always aimed for a broad readership. But over time, they found themselves increasingly pigeonholed as vestiges of a bygone era. "People had a mistaken impression about what the magazine was doing," says Mother Jones editor Douglas Foster. Ms. editor Anne Summers, who took over from founder Gloria Steinem last year, was also worried about...
Schmitty took this apparently enlightened approach so far that he threatened to quit before making a run at 600 career home runs--a feat accomplished only by Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron--even though many baseball watchers thought Schmidt would reach the mark...