Word: repressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repressor molecules" that Gilbert and Ptashne studied are proteins that stimulate a few of the genes in each living cell and repress the other genes. Since each cell needs only a few of its thousands of genes to be functioning at any one time, the repressors are neces- sary to turn some of the genes on and keep the rest switched...
...head of Soc Rel 149, would not make a definite statement about whether he intended to continue the course next year. He called the three-member supervisory group, " a sort of snoop committee," and charged that the committee was one of several efforts being made to restrict and repress the course...
...further feel that the Business School's Riot Plan should be immediately discarded as it sets the stage for a possible duplication of the atrocious brutality which occurred last week. It is quite clear that the Riot Plan is a tool of the Business School administration to repress the Black students' inclination to fully express their indignation at some future decisions...
...what U.S. newspaper could you have read that a Broadway producer plans to include onstage sexual intercourse in a coming play? That a recording of the national anthem played in Chicago Stadium was so bad that 5,700 basketball fans were unable to repress giggles? That some Saigon soothsayers claim that President Diem died because canal diggers had chopped off the head of a dragon guarding his father's grave? The unlikely answer, as many of its more than 1,000,000 readers could verify, is the Wall Street Journal. It included those tidbits in recent front-page "leaders...
...conservative analysis of the community action programs--an analysis which amounts, in reality, to little more than a claim that middle-class outside-agitators have been making trouble by stirring up the normally docile black folk in the ghettos--contains the seeds of an intellectually serviceable ideology of repression. It is but a short step from Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding to the proposition that government should avoid doing anything that might raise expectations, among the poor, while doing as much as possible to repress violence. After all, would not such a policy best serve the immediate need for community and security...