Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change. Explains Preer: "It's hard to imagine how one code could evolve into another without jeopardizing the protein in the cell." Whatever the mechanism, the changes must have occurred very early on; some biologists suggest that the alterations may have been a ploy by one-celled creatures to resist viruses, which destroy cells by invading them and taking over their cellular machinery...
...correctness of our involvement there, successive Administration managed nearly to ignore the actual situation in that complicated little country where the odds were heavily stacked against a successful U.S. intervention. Insisted on using Vietnam as an arena in which to demonstrate to friend and foe alike our readiness to resist communism anywhere and everywhere in the world. In addition, foreign servicemen, bureaucrats and lawmakers all backed this position not for its merits, which were few, our of concern lest they be branded soft on communism. Likewise, last week's issue wasn't about the MX but about resolve--and those...
Brock said he saw his new job as "a challenge that is impossible to resist." He added that his role will be not just to earn the trust of labor leaders, but to "create as many jobs as I can. That is the fundamental goal of this Administration." That apparently means Brock will follow the Administration line against closed-shop legislation and will push to abolish the minimum-wage requirement for teenage workers...
...after meeting during World War II. At first, Lemmon was wary of Naples. But when he took a walk, "someone would recognize me, smile and then start clapping. Soon somebody else would follow suit, and in a little while the whole street or piazza was clapping." What actor could resist? Adds Mastroianni: "In Naples the people will smile at you and whisper, 'Hallo, Marcello, we are getting old; come and have a coffee.' But in Rome, God protect you. They will snigger behind your back, 'Now he is old. Look at those lines.' " In such an atmosphere, the two actors...
...visit. A plump sow with a sweet disposition, Betty is the Chilverses' ticket to burgherhood--if only Gilbert can bring himself to slit the throat of his new companion. "It's not just pork. It's power," Joyce tells her sweet, weak husband. "Kill your friend!" Can he resist Joyce's way with the whip--especially when she is so erotically commanding in victory? "Well, Gilbert," purrs this domestic dominatrix, "I think sexual intercourse is in order...