Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experimentation is potentially hazardous largely because of its unpredictability; an experiment could result in bacteria which produce insulin or the creation of new strains of dangerous bacteria that resist antibiotics. Often, the DNA is inserted into the E. coli bacteria, which live in the human gut, but if these hybrid organism were to escape from the laboratory, they could enter the human body and resist its normal immunological defenses. To their credit, scientists engaged in this research were the first to sound the alarm in the early '70s. Lear traces the chain of events that led to regulation...
...Democratic nomination to oppose Thurmond. Ravenel attacks Thurmond for being ineffective at using his seniority in the Senate-charging that only seven of his 185 proposed bills have become law -and negative in his approach to legislation. Says Ravenel: "The pattern of Thurmond's positions has been to resist things like integration, things like Social Security, things like Medicaid. This is a pattern I think the state of South Carolina has outgrown." Even at the cost of votes, Ravenel has come out in favor of the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate version of the Labor Law Reform bill...
...governments now in power in many of those countries have already set up strong military establishments that would normally work with conservative interests to resist local efforts at revolution, Skocpol said...
...students evaluating their professors. Harvard and Yale undergraduates have for years published devastatingly candid brochures designed to help freshmen choose courses. But the temptation to ingratiate themselves with students by offering "guts"?courses with a reputation for easy grades?or resorting to informal rap sessions becomes difficult to resist when the alternative is empty classrooms...
...dancing, some love and a few funny lines, and they'll go home happy. Unless the book waxes trite beyond belief or the singers are tone-deaf, what you usually need in a musical is a lot of money and the kind of house-filling draw no producer can resist...