Word: tip
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Wolf, 63, garnered support from the more liberal and wealthy areas of Cambridge. Galluccio, 29, drew votes from many of the same blue-collar residents who christened the careers of former U.S. House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill and state House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty...
Scientists are also trying to understand the role of telomerase, an enzyme that regulates growth at the ends of chromosomes. At the tip of every chromosome is a chunk of dna that experts long assumed to be superfluous, since it gets lost in replication. Now they think that piece of dna may be critical in aging, and some speculate that the key to preserving it may lie in preventing the shrinkage of the telomeres that protect chromosome tips from deteriorating...
Before Flaherty, the seat was held by U.S. House Speaker Thomas F. "Tip" O'Neil...
...weasel." The Prez won't choke; for him this is routine. He'll smoothly give the longest speech we've seen. It's kids, he says. To help the little varmints, He'd pass a laundry list of tiny garments. Hope's back, he says; our future looks tip-top. He hopes himself no other shoe will drop...
...bill got to the House, Kemp, who still believed that growth spurred by tax cuts would make deep spending cuts unnecessary, got White House chief of staff Donald Regan to persuade Ronald Reagan to oppose it. The bill died after Reagan allied himself with none other than Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill to do it in. The episode helped Democrats regain control of the Senate the next year. Dole aides said Kemp would never be forgiven...