Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into Sunday's nobody than a rookie pro-football quarterback. Experts generally agree that it takes five to six years for a fledgling passer to gain the poise, knowledge and confidence-in himself as well as that of his teammates-to become a winner. Even the best young signal callers usually find themselves enduring a lengthy novitiate behind a seasoned...
...Wolf and Nalbandian discovered chemicals that would react to hemoglobin S and other less harmful sickling substances, making a quick screening test possible. A small blood sample is dropped into a tube containing a solution of potassium phosphate, sodium dithionite and saponin. Clouding of the solution is a danger signal but does not specifically identify hemoglobin S. If the first round arouses suspicion, a second test, also based on Murayama's work, is performed immediately. Urea, a natural waste substance produced by the normal liver, breaks some molecular bonds in abnormal hemoglobin. When urea is added to the solution...
Despite the presence of Wallenbergs for top posts, the new bank's creation may signal a voluntary withdrawal of older members of the family from financial prominence. In dissolving 115-year-old Enskilda, the Wallenbergs will be dismantling the institution upon which their empire was founded. Only 7.3% of the stock of the new bank will be theirs; the rest will go to Skandinaviska and other Enskilda shareholders...
Irresistible Signal. In her 20s Penelope Conner became known for something more than her critical acuity. There was that flaming hair, for one thing, and that look of perpetual astonishment. And there were the men. She was married for seven years to a brilliant neurologist, Roger Gilliatt-the best man at the wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. The Gilliatts split when she ran off with Playwright John Osborne (Look Back in Anger). After five years of volatile marriage, she and Osborne called it finis. She got custody of their only child, Nolan Kate. For a brief time...
Those credentials have hemidemisemi-quavers of Alma Mahler, who also combined personal beauty and an intellectual signal that achievers found irresistible. But Gilliatt's life has no such grand Viennese design. The first major film critic since James Agee to enjoy distinction as a scenarist, she has become something of a recluse, both in her life and work. The prominent are never the subjects of her fiction, so far almost twoscore polished short stories and two novels, largely about the odd, unfashionable characters whom Anthony Burgess reviewed as "defiantly interesting...