Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...India has legitimate grievances: the cost of caring for 10 million refugees, $830 million by the end of March; the threat of large-scale communal turmoil in the politically volatile and hard-pressed state of West Bengal, where the bulk of the refugees have fled; the presence on Indian soil of large numbers of guerrillas who could become a militant force stirring up trouble among India's own dissatisfied masses; and finally, the prospect of a continued inflow of refugees so long as the civil war continues...
...border battles had broken out almost daily between troops of the two nations. The conflict that finally erupted last week along the 1,300-mile frontier was plainly big enough to raise the specter of a major conflagration on the subcontinent. The presence of Indian troops on Pakistan's soil escalated the dispute between the two nations to the point where full-scale war could erupt at any moment?a war that could also cause an uncomfortable confrontation of the major powers...
...fears of overcrowded schools, rising crime and deterioration of the neighborhood, pointing out that this had happened in the communities many of them had moved away from. New York Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley, carrying his protest to George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, also argued that soil conditions on the site were so bad that construction costs would soar, and that the lack of air conditioning in the plans meant that airplane noise from nearby La Guardia Airport would be intolerable for the residents. After hearing Buckley, Romney agreed that he would review the project, even though...
...Lucius D. Clay made a symbolic gesture designed to calm frightened West Berliners. He took a helicopter across the "death strip" to Steinstucken and evacuated 32 political refugees; a day later, he created what may be the U.S. Army's smallest permanent armed garrison operating openly on foreign soil-a post staffed by three military policemen, who live in the basement of the mayor's house and patrol Steinstucken's perimeter...
...years he has headed a scientific team looking into the three-dimensional structure of enzymes, the long-chained proteins that act as catalysts in all the chemical reactions necessary for life. The group's latest interest has been an enzyme called subtilisin, which is found in ordinary soil bacteria. As they investigated subtilisin's complex structure, the scientists realized that it had a curious similarity to another enzyme, chymotrypsin, common to all vertebrates, including man. While the overall molecular architecture of the two enzymes is quite different, they both have three identical groups of amino acids that form...