Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last night's meeting, which was attended by fewer than 50 council members, the dead weight seemed, well, dead. Many members were absent, and many who were present did not speak...
...McLain defends the committee on this charge, pointing to the fact that SAC is much more inclusive than it was even three years ago. Currently, 14 of 30 SAC members are women, and 12 are minorities. To encourage diversity among associates, he plans to speak to campus organizations about...
...double helix. That breakthrough earned them a Nobel Prize and made it possible to trace at the molecular level how cells organize hereditary information. In October, Watson drove in from the Long Island, N.Y., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he has worked for nearly three decades, to speak to TIME's reporters and editors. Elmer-DeWitt used the opportunity to invite Watson to write the package's closing essay. "He's an icon of molecular genetics," says Elmer-DeWitt. "And unlike many scientists, he is a lucid and engaging writer...
...days before the delivery that the staff at the woman's nursing home in Lawrence, Mass., even discovered that she was pregnant. Under the circumstances, the pregnancy had to have been the result of rape; yet the woman was uniquely unable to name her assailant. If she couldn't speak, however, the blood of her daughter could. Shortly after the baby's birth, the police drew a sample of the infant's blood, then took voluntary samples from male relatives of the woman as well as from nursing-home personnel and others who might have had access to her. Comparing...
...response to Victoria's "I don't want to be a man anymore", he replies "Neither do I." But Dana Lynn Mauro as Norma, King's moll, elicits huge laughs with her brassy style, all malapropisms and mangled French ("You know French?" "Oh sure, I just don't speak it"). Flashy and loud, MaBBuro's vim shows up what Tennille lacks, and she was deservedly a crowd favorite. The burly A.J. Irvin, playing the stiff-lipped Squash, King's bodyguard, also has his moments...