Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...design an all-solar neighborhood of 30 working-class houses and eight commercial buildings in Gardner, Massachusetts, that opened in 1986. Sponsored by New England Electric Systems utility company, the project offers a glimpse of the day when solar-run homes could become as common as split-level houses. Solar power already helps heat and light more than 100,000 U.S. houses. And this week Real Goods is sponsoring a tour of homes from Maine to California that have all their energy needs met by sun, wind or water power...
Each pair of prizewinners will split a prize...
...Boston-area researchers, Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp, were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for their work in finding "split genes...
...interview yesterday, Sharp said that understanding split genes is vital to exploring cancer and hereditary diseases. "It is clear that only by understanding differences in genes can you understand disease states and hope to control them," he said...
...frantic buy-' em-and-bust-'em-up struggles (like the $25 billion 1988 fight for RJR Nabisco) that burdened corporations with excessive debt, ignited newspaper headlines and enriched everyone from corporate raiders to takeover lawyers. "The only criteria were who won or lost and how the companies were split up," says Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner at investment banker Lazard Freres, Paramount's adviser. In that rapacious era, "we wouldn't look at a deal under $1 billion," says James Stewart, a former front-page editor of the Wall Street Journal and author of the best seller Den of Thieves...