Word: targetting
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Compound Library: A sorted collection of different chemicals which can be tested for potency against target proteins. Once highly prized, with the advent of combinatorial chemistry libraries of hundreds of thousands of molecules can be had for only a few dollars per molecule...
Hopkins adds that liberals, who are increasingly drawn to work in "very focused areas," have also turned to the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) to target specific issues...
Preposterous though it seems, that's pretty much what happened last week when Emily Rosa's experiment was written up in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Rosa's target was a practice known as therapeutic touch (TT for short), whose proponents manipulate patients' "energy fields" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily's test shows that these energy fields can't be detected, even by trained TT practitioners. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn...
...Russians out and the Marlboro Man in," sighs Witold Zatonski, a leader in Poland's anti-smoking crusade. In Warsaw's streets, signs for L&M tout the "American way." Joe Camel, banned in Boston, boogies in Buenos Aires; the Marlboro Man rides on in Taiwan. One target of overseas advertising: women, who represent only 5% of the world's smokers...
...these limits as well. In cinema, Debbie Allan had to push for ten years until she could get the backing of Steven Spielberg to produce Amistad. Moreover, Puffy's success has depended on the suburban white teenagers who have become the biggest consumers of hip-hop and Puffy's target market...