Word: root
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Danger Signal. Root of the trouble is a recessive gene. If only one parent has this defective gene, the child will not develop the disease, though he may pass on the gene. But if both parents have it, an average of one child out of four will have a deficiency of ceruloplasmin-a little-understood blue component of the blood, in which eight atoms of copper are bound into a large protein molecule. A deficiency of ceruloplasmin leads to a piling up of copper in such sensitive organs as the liver and brain...
...power the students have in the administration of the university is symptomatic of what Gonzalez regards as the root cause of the terrorism: the high position that the university student occupies in Venezuelan society in general, and in political life in particular...
...outset of his piece on "The Administration and the Left" Schlesinger delineates two distinct, historical strains in American progressivism. The "pragmatic" strain "accepts, without approving, the given structure of society and strives to change it by action from within." The "utopian" strain "rejects the given structure of society, root and branch, and strives to change it by exhortation from without...
Since last July, McManus has been based in Paris, and from there has ranged through the Common Market area to report on the developing community. In recent weeks, covering the negotiations on Britain's entry application, he admits that "it was impossible not to begin to root for the British." After he left Brussels last week, during the wake for Britain's hopes, he admitted to a slight feeling of apology at telling a watchful clerk at the British European Airways counter in London that because of more convenient flight times he would have to fly Air France...
...scathingly contemptuous of ideologies that aimlessly attacked tradition, and in a series of brilliant essays showed how easily they led to totalitarianism. "Liberty." he wrote, "is the fruit of slow growth in a stable society.'' Wars and revolutions that keep society in turmoil prevent liberty from taking root...