Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buildings, which the University currently values at more than $113 million, form a significant segment of HMC's $263 million real estate portfolio...
Gusella reports in Friday's issue of the journal Cell that he found Huntington's disease victims shared a "genetic stutter," an excessive repetition of a sequence of three nucleotide bases. The three-base segment has 11 to 34 direct copies in unaffected people, but anywhere upwards of 42 repeats in those affected...
...council devoted a segment late in its meeting to discuss the allotment of corporate donations from last spring's Rock for Shelter concert to Phillips Brooks House...
Jeff Craig, 38, is the shadowy king of radio reviewing. From his base in Westport, Connecticut, he produces and distributes three daily review features, one each on movies, videos and CDs. But although his movie segment, Sixty Second Preview, is heard on 225 stations nationwide, chances are you know Craig better from the bold-faced blurbs that trumpet his opinions in countless movie ads. Craig, for example, called Passion Fish "a triumph," Shadow of the Wolf "spectacular," Love Field "fabulous" and Amos & Andrew "a hilarious & provocative comedy...
...materials hold particular promise as coatings and wrappings that increase the body's tolerance of implanted devices. Eventually these substances may be put to work as nearly natural replacements for injured ligaments and arteries. University of Alabama molecular biophysicist Dan Urry, for example, has succeeded in turning a key segment of the protein elastin, present in many body tissues, into a material whose expansive and contractile properties closely approximate those of arterial walls. The material can be fashioned into tubes that feel, uncannily, like real blood vessels and also into sheets for encasing mechanical devices like pacemakers. Tests of this...