Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimates by scientists at the California Institute of Technology, a pound of pure interferon would cost between $10 billion and $20 billion. That price will certainly decline as large companies enter the field with more efficient production techniques. As one Wall Street analyst predicts, "The market for the stuff is probably big enough for everyone to get a share. If interferon is used, it appears that it will be used in enormous quantities, so the companies that learn how to produce it and sell it the cheapest will reap enormous benefits from their research investment...
Lindenmann decided to call the mysterious stuff interferon, a hybrid of "interference" and the suffix "on," which was in vogue among biologists, who were using such names as cistron, recon and muton to describe new genetic concepts. The initial discovery was made in November and duly recorded in Isaacs' lab notebook under the entry: "In search of an interferon." Lindenmann took it all in stride. Said he: "I thought it quite natural that when you did research you discovered things...
...police investigated the shooting, they found no elegant Christie puzzle but the stuff of soap operas: indications of a romantic triangle, a possible suicide plot, and the tragic end of a 13-year relationship...
...their failure to realize that hot water in the reactor core boiled into steam because of the loss of pressure during the accident. Says Toscas: "We're planning to add much more study of the basic theory of heat transfer, fluid flow, water and steam theory-all the stuff the operators flew right by before and which normal operating conditions don't require...
...best line is a leftover from Alice, "Kiss mah grits!" The writ ing is not bad, by sitcom standards, but it is not nearly as good as Polly Holliday deserves. She is one of TV's truly funny women, and she needs a script as frothy as the stuff coming out of the cooler at the Yellow Rose...