Word: sanger
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...Mexican-American farm workers, Flores began his football career as a schoolboy quarterback in Sanger, Calif. At the College of the Pacific, he broke most of Eddie LeBaron's passing records, but was overlooked in the N.F.L. draft. He went to the Canadian Football League, but was dropped after a shoulder ailment recurred. Flores drifted to the Raiders, where he was starting quarterback for two seasons before contracting tuberculosis. He returned to play for eight more years with a couple of N.F.L. teams, then joined the Raiders' coaching staff...
...halves of squeezed lemons. The modern version was developed in 1838 by F.A. Wilde, a German gynecologist. It gained widespread acceptance in Europe but never caught on in the U.S., although it was thought to be as reliable as the diaphragm. A major reason: Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger championed the diaphragm...
Gilbert and Sanger vastly advanced the new technology of recombinant DNA, as it has become known, with their different methods for determining the sequence of nucleotides, or chemical "letters," that carry the message in the long-chained DNA molecules. Gilbert's technique, devised with his Harvard colleague Allan Maxam, is essentially chemical: it uses reagents, or chemical markers, to test for different nucleotides along the molecule. Sanger's is more biological: it employs an enzyme to copy individual "letters" and thus identify them...
...Elliott M. Sanger Jr., manager of corporate relations for The Times, yesterday called Smith's explanation "not true" and said the only labor problems the Times has had in the recent past occurred two weeks ago, took place only in the New York press room and lasted only...
...There is no work slowdown," Sanger said, adding, "I know of no major delays at all--I'm sure that had there been any major delays, I would have heard...