Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they can hold on to their moment of glory only briefly before someone younger, stronger and faster grabs it away. But last week at the speed-skating oval in Albertville, several leading contestants had a chance to relive events from the Calgary Olympics four years ago. Some hoped to repeat their success; others sought to redeem their failures...
...Blair, her final race offered a chance to better Calgary, where she won a bronze in the 1,000. This time at the Albertville track, Bonnie skated first, posting a 1:21.9 for Ye to top. With no repeat of the jostling during the lane changeover, Ye surged toward the finish line and vindication. When she lifted her head to the scoreboard, the Chinese skater had certainly achieved that. But by the incomprehensibly slim margin of .02 sec., less than the blink of an eye, Blair had won a second gold medal, making her the first American woman to take...
When Tsongas was unable to hear a question about the similarity to the former Massachusetts governor at one rally recently, the supporter had to repeat...
Then, whenever a swear word popped into my head, I would repeat silently "I love you" until the words of Satan evaporated away...
...myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy, the change can be far from negligible: a fragment of DNA on chromosome 19 appears to repeat itself more frequently with every generation. Just what triggers the repetition is a mystery. Researchers surmise that a hitch occurs while DNA is being copied in the cell, much as the same bar of music repeats on a scratched record. The DNA repeat gets worse with each generation, just as with each playing of a flawed record, the music stutters for a longer period. "Presumably the replication error occurs in the sperm...