Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible to rescue Bosnia, there are lessons to be learned that could help prevent a repeat of the blundering and pusillanimity that permitted the dismemberment. "The Bosnians are appalled at the weakness of the democracies," says Albert Wohlstetter, a historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, who has taken up the cause of Bosnia in a series of scathing articles that castigate the West for flaccid leadership and incompetent diplomacy. He argues that virtually every Western initiative in the former Yugoslavia was wrongheaded, making matters steadily worse by rewarding aggression and punishing its victims. The West, he says...
...theory that a combination of anti-HIV drugs would cause the virus to mutate to a non-reproductive form, and 400 human volunteers were selected for studies of the so-called "triple drug therapy." But other scientific teams were unable to replicate the results, prompting the Harvard team to repeat the experiment, The New York Times reported...
...arraigned for raping boy scouts, a repeat offense...
...quite another. In the decade following deregulation in 1978, for instance, about 176 new carriers were launched. All but one fell victim to intense competition from larger airlines and either were acquired or went out of business. The remaining survivor, America West, is emerging from bankruptcy. Will history repeat itself? Most observers think not. While the new carriers face uncertain skies ahead, analysts expect that at least a third of the upstarts will be able to stay aloft, thanks in large part to more protective regulators and trails blazed by their predecessors. "These new start-ups are a lot smarter...
...think that's a real problem," says one Harvard biology professor, who spoke only no condition of anonymity. "In some sense, it's the professor's responsibility to check. But how do you do it, unless you're going to repeat every experiment...