Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sensing a shift in the regulatory wind, many reproductive scientists wished aloud that the cloning issue had never been raised -- or at least not in this way. "((Hall and Stillman)) haven't done science or medicine any favors," said Dr. Marilyn Monk, a researcher at London's Institute of Child Health. Dr. Leeanda Wilton, director of embryology at Australia's Monash IVF Center, where much of the in-vitro fertilization technology was developed, said there were hundreds of scientists who could have split an embryo in half, just the way Hall and Stillman did. "They haven't done so because...
...annual report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) cites South Africa's shift towards democracy and Nelson Mandela's October 1 announcement encouraging reinvestment in South Africa as reasons for reconsideration of the current policy of selective divestment...
...type of project you can rush,"says Rick Kleber, the superintendent ofconstruction. Indeed, The Link's complicatedplacement and curious specifications madeconstruction a whopper of a challenge. "It's beena very interesting project--very intensemechanically," he says. And stressful. "Anytimeyou work between two fixed points, there's no roomto shift things...
Council members also said they are trying to shift the academic calendar forward by one month in order to place first semester final exams before winter break...
...corporate downsizing continues, some 20% of those unemployed have been out of work at least six months, twice the level of the 1970s. Even low interest rates have a downside: they not only hurt retirees and others living on investment income, but they also encourage millions of Americans to shift out of federally insured bank accounts and certificates of deposit into potentially more lucrative -- and certainly more volatile -- equities and mutual funds. The long predicted -- and long postponed -- stock market correction could hit personal savings hard...