Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best grim. A ministerial-level committee of the Sahelian nations is seeking foreign grants of $700 million to fund 126 long-range projects, such as dams, reforestation, transport networks and rebuilding of decimated herds. But the only certain means of guaranteeing that the present catastrophe will not repeat itself lies with population control rather than with food supplies...
...approved by an independent scientific advisory committee, it soon came under criticism. Several scientists-including Britain's Sir Peter Medawar, winner of a 1960 Nobel Prize for his work on tissue grafting -tried but were unable to duplicate Summerlin's results. Apparently Sum-merlin himself could not repeat his earlier experiments; in a paper now awaiting publication in the scientific journal Transplantation, Good, Summerlin and Dr. John Ninnemann report that although they tried five different transplantation techniques on 500 mice, they were unable to get the new tissue to take...
...tunnel. Asked whether the utility has any reservations about starting before the litigation is complete, Con Ed denies that it does; "We have every expectation that we will win," the spokesmen say. And in the event that an adverse decision halts the project? "We have every expectation," the spokesmen repeat, "that we will win." And if not, they seem to imply, Cornwall will be left with a somewhat useless 40-foot-diameter, two-mile-long tunnel to the river...
Thomas J. Kimmell '74-75, a member of the committee, said yesterday that the new system, if adopted, will prevent a repeat of last year's unprecedented failing...
Penn coach Bob Seddon has twelve returning lettermen from last year's 19-12-1 squad, and hopes to repeat the 3-2 victory his team registered over a World Series-bound Crimson outfit early last season...