Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of researchers who recognized from the start that AIDS was probably an infectious disease. He performed or collaborated on much of the basic virology work that showed HIV does not lie dormant, as most scientists thought, but multiplies in vast numbers right from the start. His insights helped shift the focus of AIDS treatment from the late stages of illness to the first weeks of infection. And it was his team's pioneering work with combination therapy, reported in Vancouver, that first raised hope that the virus might someday be eliminated...
...tenacious pursuit of the virus in the first weeks of infection helped show what the body does right in controlling HIV. His pioneering experiments with protease inhibitors helped clarify how the virus ultimately overwhelms the immune system. His work and his insights set the stage for an enormously productive shift in the treatment of AIDS away from the later stages of illness to the critical early days of infection...
These findings led Wong-Staal to shift her focus from directly attacking the virus to bolstering the immune system with the tools of gene therapy. In 1990 she left Gallo's lab to head the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California at San Diego. Although it may take years, she believes that gene therapy--with its promise of cheaper drugs and milder side effects--could provide the best AIDS treatment...
...wonder workers are more worried now than they were just a few years ago. The new survey, the latest to confirm that the disposable worker phenomenon is a long-term shift in the way Americans live and work, found that 46 percent of workers think often about the possibility of being laid off, up from 31 percent four years ago. Some 53 percent worry about the future of their company, while 40 percent don't think their employer values committed, experienced workers. One of the few bright notes in the study: a growing number of workers (42 percent...
...serious problem deserves to be treated as such. Barbara Ehrenreich's piece [ESSAY, Dec. 2], suggesting that the U.S. shift to an "all-female military," was full of holes! The individual occurrences of sexual harassment, as awful as they are, do not represent a prevailing trend. I ask you, an all-woman military? Who would protect whom? The women joining an all-female army would probably hate men enough to obliterate them. I do understand that Ehrenreich intended to be amusing, but such fun at the expense of the majority of perfectly good soldiers of all stripes is definitely...