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Word: tailoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chemical profile from year to year. Today's A-Shanghai may soon be supplanted by one that is substantially different. What is more, entirely new types of flu viruses appear every few years. Months before each flu season, scientists must guess which strains will be most active and then tailor a vaccine to combat them. Sometimes their forecast is wrong, and the vaccine is virtually useless. In 1976, for example, the anticipated swine-flu epidemic never materialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Laid Low by the Flu | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...kaleidoscopic Lady Antonia, a dishy blue-blood intellectual, seems tailor-made as the heroine of a romantic novel. Pity that Fraser the writer shuns that pop genre -- it would make a lively autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LADY ANTONIA FRASER: Not Quite Your Usual Historian | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

Koocher described the Suffolk and Middlesexdistrict as "tailor-made" for LoPresti. "I don'tsee LoPresti being vulnerable to Republicans," hesaid...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Republican City Leader Eyes Seat Of LoPresti | 1/10/1990 | See Source »

...Command, and Carl Stiner, the Task Force Commander, clear authority to direct the attacks. Says retired Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, who commanded the Grenada task force: "In Panama they had a lot of time to prepare, and they did a hell of a job; they were able to tailor things a lot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passing The Manhood Test Operation | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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