Word: slight
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...work on UNIVAC, the first large commercial computer, and created COBOL, the breakthrough computer language that made the machines accessible to non-mathematicians. She was recalled to active duty in 1967 at age 60. Now 79 and a rear admiral, Hopper is philosophical about the Navy's early slight. "It's just as well to be told you're too old at 40," she says. "Then you're over...
...must be made from the blood of infected individuals. Though there have been no reported cases of infection stemming from Merck's blood-based vaccine, the possibility that diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis B could be transmitted in blood products always exists. Recombivax HB eliminates that possibility, however slight...
...slight, soft-spoken woman, Hurd gained practice in the frugality and tough-mindedness that brought Aliens in on its relatively modest $18 million budget. She is capable of denying her husband the time or the equipment he needs for one of his on-set brainstorms. When he insisted on a laser scanner for the picture's first sequence, she made him pay for it himself. All her grit was needed to cope with ten months of Aliens production in unenlightened England. "The British view of female producers proved to be a big problem for Gale," says her husband. "They didn...
...many Americans, it was the near equivalent of the royal wedding that Britain is preparing for, albeit with a slight reversal of roles. At Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, with suitable pomp and ceremony, Prince Andrew of the House of Windsor weds his commoner (but uncommon) love, Sarah Ferguson. But near Hyannis Port, Mass., last Saturday, the bride was the Princess of Camelot when Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis, was married to the very un-Kennedyesque Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, 13 years her senior...
With benefit so slight, the FDA needs to be convinced that the risks are minimal. But the federal agency appears to be almost alone in moving cautiously. Upjohn has already spent nearly $26 million retooling its plant in Kalamazoo. Regaine will not come cheap; a year's treatment with the prescription-only lotion may run around $1,000. But no one doubts there will be plenty of takers. Some resourceful men are creating a moonshine tonic on their own. The key ingredient: mashed hypertension pills, containing--what else?--minoxidil...