Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before they can effectively combat the bacteria that may infect a patient, threaten a swiftly spreading epidemic, or contaminate a municipal water sup ply, doctors and scientists need quick and positive identification of the invading organisms. But traditional laboratory tests that single out and classify bacterial troublemakers are complex, time-consuming and sometimes inconclusive. Often, before the results are in, the disease has spread or the patient has died. In the future, though, bacteria may lose their cloak of anonymity more quickly. Scientists have discovered that each species and strain has a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be used for virtu...
...income and earnings levies will bring in $160 million. By contrast, a 25% increase won by Lindsay in the stock-transfer tax-a hike that attracted national publicity and caused the New York Stock Exchange to threaten to move to New Jersey-will be a minor source ($35 million a year) of new revenue...
Evian-les-Bains was an episode, scarcely enough to sustain a novel. Habe's book is upholstered with plot digressions, epigrams ("the everlasting exchange of deceptions which we call social life"), philosophizing and methodical character analyses beneath which the characters themselves threaten to disappear. The figure of Habe's protagonist, Heinrich von Benda, is so overburdened with the mantle of tragedy that his death, of a heart attack in the train bearing him back to occupied Vienna, comes as a kind of comic relief...
Latest victim of Maoist "purism" is Poet Kuo Mojo, 74, longtime president of the Chinese Academy of Science. Kuo recently confessed that "strictly speaking, according to the standards of today, all that I have written should be burned." Other intellectuals who threaten Mao's pre-eminence as poet and philosopher have also come under attack, including Peking's Deputy Mayor Wu Han, who is China's leading historian. The official army newspaper chimed in against "antiParty elements [who are] responding to the great international anti-Chinese chorus of imperialists and various reactionaries to revive the Chinese reactionary...
...confession cases. They raise six vital issues: 1) When do a suspect's constitutional rights begin? 2) Must police inform him of those rights? 3) Does he need a lawyer to waive them? 4) Are indigents entitled to lawyers in the police station? 5) Does Escobedo retroactively threaten pre-1964 confessions? 6) To what extent does it forbid the whole process of U.S. police interrogations...