Word: rethink
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WASHINGTON: Prices of tobacco shares tumbled Friday as investors reacted to a report of new scientific evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer. The study, published in the journal Science strongly linked cigarettes to lung cancer and may force the tobacco industry to rethink its argument that no clear connection has been established between smoking and the disease. The research found a tobacco carcinogen called BPDE bonds to three molecular sites on a gene crucial to the development of cancer. The gene, known as P53, monitors DNA copying during cell division and destroys cells with defective copies of genetic material. When...
...fact we've been using race not just as a balance tipper but as a decisive factor," said Mansfield. "We need to rethink our whole affirmative action policy...
...letter was not meant to threaten Challinor, Kessler-Harris said, but simply to request that as a woman in a dual capacity, Challinor rethink the issues related to the strike...
...group's primary concern is to protect affordable housing for residents by pressuring Harvard to rethink its apartment proposal, according to Kirshner...
...anyone who wants to sound knowing in one of these discussions should use the word signal now and then. "I think Baghdad might be signaling us on this one," I can imagine myself saying at the Gulf task-force meeting. "He's showing us that he's willing to rethink his entire ear-amputation policy...