Word: suppressible
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...assignment asked students to compare the direction and aims of the corporate sector with the open, slow-paced and critical character of the academic scientific community. A profit-oriented emphasis on quantity and technological utility would suppress the quality and academic freedom of scientific research in major universities across the country, Rosalyn E. Jones '83, a student in the class, said yesterday...
Finally, a biopsy technique developed in 1972 is helping doctors tell when a patient's immunological defense system is attempting to reject the transplant. Drugs used to suppress rejection also limit the body's ability to ward off infection. The biopsy technique allows drugs to be used with more precision, thus tempering their undesired effect...
...polemics of H.L. Mencken, the essayist has approached the inherent conflicting interests of his craft with a full larder of whimsical irony. Immersed in the wage-earning and ephemeral world of four-alarm fires and political intrigue, the true essayist has had to continually suppress or blunt what E.B. White calls "the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest...
...than nonparents, presumably because they had learned to decipher the babbling of babies. Women were more adept than men, which seems to indicate that "female intuition" is no sexist myth. And actors rated high, while psychologists scored surprisingly low-perhaps, Archer says, because they are trained to suppress their own emotions and tend to lose the ability to recognize emotion in others...
...moral argument is not long or preachily dwelt on. Nor is a romance that might have developed between Redford and Jane Alexander, playing the Governor's aide who got him appointed. One sees the spark flash between them and then watches them immediately suppress it, as men and women often do when a larger task is at hand. Both are excellent, as are Yaphet Kotto and David Keith as prisoners trying to decide if they dare to give their trust to Brubaker. One might wish that Director Rosenberg could control his ever zooming, ever panning camera. Stillness would have...