Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should have been settled nearly five years ago. That is when an obscure postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T. first charged that a celebrated scientific article signed by some of the university's leading biologists -- including Nobel laureate David Baltimore -- was based on data that had been fudged. But rather than reopen the experiment (which involved introducing foreign genes into a mouse and observing the effect on the animal's own genes), the scientists, led by Baltimore, closed ranks. The junior researcher, Irish-born Margot O'Toole, was asked to give up her place in the lab. The senior scientist accused...
Further, he suggested that they start with small steps or "confidence- buildi ng measures." Israel, for example, could reopen West Bank universities that have been closed for three years and ease its harsh policies of arresting and deporting suspected Palestinian troublemakers. The Arabs, in return, could end their formal states of belligerency against Israel (Saudi Arabia, Syria and several other countries are officially still at war with what they term the "Zionist entity") and call off their boycott of foreign companies that do business with the Jewish state. The idea is that if each side could overcome its fear...
...suffering from a bad case of nerves, the troubled Baltic republics enjoyed a moment of relative calm. After meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh in Washington, President Bush said he had been given assurances that Moscow intended to withdraw some of its forces from the region and reopen talks with the republics. Interior Minister Pugo said that all paratroops, except those permanently stationed in the Baltics, and two-thirds of the Interior Ministry forces would be withdrawn by week's end. In another conciliatory gesture, Gorbachev set up Kremlin delegations to begin talks with the Baltic republics...
...savings. And now I might lose it all." Sundlun shut the institutions after their private insurer, the Rhode Island Share & Deposit Indemnity Corp., was sapped by the failure of a Providence bank whose president vanished in November with $13 million in funds. While 22 credit unions were scheduled to reopen this week under federal deposit insurance, Sundlun pledged to bail out shuttered lenders that are too weak to qualify for such coverage...
Well, O.K., maybe not. Have a beer, sit down in the gray sandstone grit, but do not attempt to reopen the great debate over whether the dinosaurs were wiped out at the end of the Cretaceous period by a huge comet or a vast cloud of volcanic dust or any of 80-odd other proposed killers, all of which Horner spurns. He has a rubber stamp that says, WHO GIVES A S--- WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS? Horner cares about how they lived...