Word: sown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intellectual seeds for this technological renaissance were sown more than a decade ago, when Angel and a handful of other pioneers began contemplating the challenge of building more powerful telescopes. Very quickly, they were forced to consider radical new approaches to mirror design. Simply scaling up old models would have been hopelessly expensive and unwieldy. "A large mirror can't look like a small mirror," explains Angel, "for pretty much the same reason that an elephant can't look like a fly. If it did, its legs would collapse under its own weight...
There are problems with the theory. It is not clear that HIV can survive oral ingestion. Also, if the noxious seed was sown in the '50s, why didn't African doctors notice it sooner? Curtis offers possible explanations, but the clearest resolution would be to test the original vaccine stocks, still on ice at Wistar, for HIV-like viruses. Wistar officials last week said they would form a committee "to evaluate the Rolling Stone speculations." Meanwhile, there is no reason to worry about standard polio vaccines: they are rigorously screened for contamination...
...raising galas where she spoke mesmerizingly about her life. Her father became a regular player in these little monologues as she summoned up her childhood self riding beside him in the buggy while he made his rounds. Perhaps it was then that the seeds of an artistic revolution were sown, that the secret lies in an indomitable commitment to honesty in motion...
...that before the war started, Iraq distributed substantial supplies of chemical weapons along the front lines to be held for the ground war. The British also learned that Iraqi gunners were suffering from serious maintenance problems and had great difficulty getting spare parts, and that Iraqi helicopters had randomly sown anti-personnel mines along the front to harass advancing troops...
...York's plunge into chaos cannot be blamed on Dinkins, who has been in office for only nine months. In fact, he has inherited the whirlwind sown by decades of benign neglect, misplaced priorities and outright incompetence at every level of government. If during the city's close brush with bankruptcy during the 1970s Gerald Ford was willing to let New York drop dead, the Reagan Administration seemed eager to bury it. Since 1980, cutbacks in federal aid have cost New York billions, with funds for subsidized housing alone dropping $16 billion. Despite a series of state and local levies...