Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second half and over time, Columbia fell back into a defensive shell, keeping most players back on defense and generating next to no offense...
Trying to crack a defensive shell is about as exciting and frustrating for the Crimson as it is for anyone to listen to Donald Fehr talk about the future of baseball...
Seven states will shell out a combined half a billion dollars this year to jail illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes. The surprisingly high tally of costs for those states with the largest number of illegals comes from a new Federal Government report, written in response to a suit to force the feds to pick up more of the tab. The swamped seven: Texas, California, Arizona, Florida, New York, Illinois and New Jersey...
Vallier, equal parts meticulous and affable, says he's trying to create a "corporate" sensibility for the department. He formed his sense of what is properly corporate and professional during stints in the employee relations department at Shell Oil and as the vice president for human resources for a large health care provider...
Unlike bacteria and protozoans, which are full-fledged living cells, capable of taking in nourishment and reproducing on their own, viruses are only half alive at best. They consist of little more than a shell of protein and a bit of genetic material (DNA or its chemical cousin RNA), which contains instructions for making more viruses -- but no machinery to do the job. In order to reproduce, a virus has to invade a cell, co-opting the cell's own DNA to create a virus factory. The cell -- in an animal, a plant or even a bacterium -- can be physically...