Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That was our first real test," said freshman Ted Donato, who scored twice. "We answered the call and we all came together. It's good to come together on the road because every one's against...
...finding motivations that are unvoiced in the picture, explanations for behavior undreamed of by the screenwriter. Fatal Attraction is an astonishing beneficiary of this consumer creativity. The picture is like Velcro: any theory can attach itself to the story and take hold. As Lansing says, "It's a Rorschach test for everyone who sees it." Is Alex worth our sympathy, pity, fear, loathing, or all of the above? Outside the Evergreen Theater in suburban Chicago, Rochelle Major says, "I had to believe that Alex had been hurt deeply before. She was lonely, didn't have a family like...
...agreed to the new test, primarily because of the innovative mechanisms for tracking the bacteria. In addition to turning blue, the bugs have been engineered to resist the antibiotic rifampicin -- a combination of properties that makes it possible to detect the presence of a single Pseudomonas among the billion or so microorganisms that may exist in a thimbleful of soil. Explains Margaret Mellon, manager of the National Wildlife Federation's biotechnology project: "This system is an important advance. In and of itself, it doesn't answer questions about whether bioengineered organisms are in general more or less safe than their...
Indeed, the ability to track recombinant bacteria through the environment has become a crucial factor in getting EPA approval for a release. The lack of an effective marker has, for example, held up a test by Biotechnica International, a Cambridge, Mass., firm, of Rhizobium bacteria altered to boost their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil. In one of the California ice- minus tests, however, scientists have been able to monitor the spread of anti- icing bacteria on potato plants. The marker system in this case was rifampicin resistance, less sensitive than Monsanto's multiple indicator but still able...
...Republicans' command of the medium was counterbalanced by the weakness of their message. The Democrats are ridiculed as the party of litmus- test politics, bowing to the pressures of peace activists, labor unions, minority groups and feminists. But last week's debate revealed the degree to which the Republicans are tugged by their own special interests: right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed...