Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beyond interviewed dozens of Gorbachev's colleagues, onetime schoolmates, the handful of foreigners he has known, and others who have encountered the former Stavropol farm boy on his ( rise to prominence. The magazine has also assembled the largest collection of official and family photographs of Gorbachev ever published. The result is a rare glimpse into the life and character of the year's most remarkable figure...
...Strala, Scot Laughton and Tom Deacon have created an impossibly pretty, thoroughly thought-out floor lamp. It has steel tubes finished in black epoxy; the conical shade is spun aluminum; the green spherical on-off dimmer switch is patinated brass. The result is a lamp that alludes serenely to light -- the moon and the sun -- without fuss or frill...
...wake of the Wall Street crash, they briefly considered a proposal to scale down Social Security cost-of- living increases. Congressman Claude Pepper, 87, held a press conference to announce that he would force a separate House vote on the issue. The Gray Lobby went to work. The result? Although programs for the elderly account for one-third of the budget, negotiators dropped the proposal in a fright. "These are people who have plenty of time on their hands, who are well organized, who vote regularly, and they are a massive political force," lamented Budget Director James Miller...
...nine-member team led by a geneticist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., announced that an infant's sex seems to be fixed by a single gene called testis determining factor, or TDF. The discovery, declared Whitehead's director, Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, was the result of a "landmark set of experiments...
...Perhaps the most important result of this research," says Peter Goodfellow, of London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, whose lab had predicted the gene's location, "is that it could provide a model system for development in general." Explains UCLA's Shapiro: "It's not just a question of triggering the growth of gonads. It's how a cell decides whether it becomes a muscle cell or a skin cell...