Word: section
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Small schools, large schools, Ivy and non-Ivy, rural and urban; the group appeared to be a fairly accurate cross section of America. With some exceptions, we got along quite well, eating meals together and dancing in a tight bunch the night of the delegate dance...
...group will also ask for moderate increases in rent, renewal of all "section 8" contracts and the sale of some buildings at prices reflecting those before rent control, according to a campaign press release...
...accepted--and sometimes hotly contested--by the majority of scientists in their field. Breast-implant suits, for example, have produced a brand-new affliction, "atypical connective-tissue disease," that has as yet no formal medical standing. Argues Dallas attorney Bert Black, who heads the American Bar Association's section on science and technology: "One should not force companies to pay out millions of dollars and drive useful products off the market on the basis of a disease that isn't even a hypothesis yet." But University of Iowa law professor Michael Green cautions, "It's only when you accumulate...
...That phrase evokes images of mad scientists pouring together chemicals and creating technological break-throughs such as flubber (flying rubber), as in the 1961 movie "The Absent-Minded Professor." What the phrase ignores is that basic research provides much of the knowledge for cures today. In the very same section of Time that depreciates basic research, the Telomere theory is described, a new theory of aging. This theory suggests that aging is a result of the progressive shortening of DNA within the body's cells. Now this theory could hardly be possible without the discovery of DNA itself, a result...
Another young fan found no excitment in the game itself, but rather put on a solid gymnastic's beam routine on the stands of her section...