Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Which is exactly the conclusion reached long ago by many other joint-venture businessmen. Perhaps the most typical piece of underhanded dealing involves the corruption of customs agents by hotels. "The law says customs can take up to 10% of an imported shipment of perishable items to test for disease," says a Chinese American who co-owns a Sichuan province hotel. To beat the delay and spoilage that can result from complying with such rules, hotel owners regularly pay off customs officials with "free samples...
...would like to ignore the texts entirely, but the college entrance exams test the books' content. "They can actually ask you how exactly Marx learned English," he says. (By writing for American newspapers, it turns out.) "So we have to go through them. But we also try to come up with exercises that get to the real questions of English grammar. Now, which word do you think belongs in the blank...
...desperate search for other AIDS treatments has not flagged. Last week a group of San Francisco AIDS activists announced the results of their highly controversial underground test of Compound Q, a chemical derived from a cucumber-like Chinese plant. Although many of the 34 patients tested with the drug seemed to show marked improvement, three have died. The deaths have not been directly attributed to Compound Q, but the uncertain results proved once again how important AZT has become to AIDS patients as a life-giving drug and a symbol of hope...
...disorder. Previously the beta amyloid had been found only in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. The study, reported in last week's Nature, suggests that Alzheimer's may not begin in the brain, as has generally been assumed. This new knowledge could lead to a practical skin test for detecting the disease and may eventually help scientists learn how to prevent...
Cubism has never gone soft; it remains, after 80 years, mysterious, challenging and resistant. Neither Picasso nor Braque said much to explain what they believed they were doing. Their Cubist work contains no ideological positions, dramatic subject matter or easy anecdotes. It disdains narrative and sentiment -- a severe test for Picasso, whose Blue and Rose periods had been full of both. (On the other hand, both men's paintings and collages were seeded with puns, sly allusions and In jokes: when the fragmentary writing on one of Picasso's paintings from 1912 declares that "Notre Avenir est dans...