Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complicate matters, between the segments of DNA that represent genes are endless stretches of code letters that seem to spell out only genetic gibberish. Geneticists once thought most of the unintelligible stuff was "junk DNA" -- useless sequences of code letters that accidentally developed during evolution and were not discarded. That concept has changed. "My feeling is there's a lot of very useful information buried in the sequence," says Nobel laureate Paul Berg of Stanford University. "Some of it we will know how to interpret; some we know is going to be gibberish...
...Tough Stuff...
...have a number of people who are interested in the Business School--maybe going to some of the seminars and stuff," McGrath said. She added that she participated in programs at the Law School...
Washington was built on a river of "ardent spirits," a nice term used long ago for the hard stuff. Laborers on public buildings got larger whiskey rations the higher up they worked, a dubious formula. But the buildings did get finished. Dolley Madison brought this "saloon culture" into the White House, getting the political leaders out of the bars and into more graceful surroundings. The drinks came on silver trays. James Madison cut some good deals...
...recently, workstations were arcane tools employed mainly by engineers and scientists. But price reductions and technological changes have made the computers more practical for many other uses, such as financial trading and desktop publishing. Says Mark Tolliver, workstation marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard: "When people see all the whizzy stuff these machines can do, they want to try them out." Most workstations now use a standardized internal operating system known as Unix (which explains why the trade show is called UniForum). The increasing prevalence of Unix in the computer industry makes it easier for workstations made by different manufacturers...