Word: simplex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electronic Simplex equipment was installed, eliminating unwieldy chains and other mechanics in favor of an electronic link...
Cambridgeport was a major industrial area before 1950, but rising land prices and a new superhighway planned through the area forced many firms to relocate. The largest of these was the Simplex Wire and Cable Co.; which left 25 acres vacant...
Herpes (Greek for a creeping, inflammatory illness) has become notorious in the U.S. because of the type called herpes simplex, which is passed among humans by sexual contact. The name, however, covers some 50 viral infections that afflict animals. The equine variety is transmitted not by mating but by coughing or sniffling and can be "carried" by a seemingly well animal, just as the virus can reside in some humans with no visible ill effects...
Interest in possible viral causes of cancer peaked in the 1960s, when various animal studies suggested that viruses could cause turnors. But apart from rare correlations (such as that between the Herpes simplex II virus and cervical cancer in women), researchers could not establish a general cause and effect relationship between viruses and cancer. Recent advances in the field of genetic engineering have paralleled a surge of interest in the possibility of a genetic cause of cancer. But apart from circumstancial evidence for genetic causes of such rare cancers as Burkitt's lymphoma (as Harvard recently announced), the possibility...
...Simplex Steering Committee members repeated their concerns about unrestricted development after the Monday session, and called the councillor's move to substitute a compromise plan for their own petition "a slap in the face...