Word: transferable
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This core lab will serve as a manufacturing facility for the viral vectors necessary to transfer foreign DNA into tissue cells. The facility frees them from the need to cajole private biotech firms into manufacturing the vectors at very high cost, Dranoff said, and allows for more exploratory and small-scale testing...
This week, the Senate will begin full-session deliberations on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty which will go into effect on April 29. The CWC, which would ban the development, possession and transfer of chemical weapons and would call for their destruction--given the wide-spread support it has already garnered--will enter into force with or without American ratification. Yet, the United States has so far balked at ratifying the CWC, a treaty that President Bush helped construct in 1991 and that all living presidents and secretaries of state stand behind...
Harvard, ranked 29th nationally, expected the contest to be a neck-in-neck clash of two regional powers, as the 72nd-ranked Eagles (6-4) boasted a solid record against other Ivy teams and featured heavily-recruited transfer Barbara Prevail, a former junior doubles partner of new world No. 1 Martina Hingis. The Crimson's star sophomore Ivy Wang was forced to take on the mysterious phenom...
Students should have at least some say in an issue that affects their daily lives to the extent that housing does. Total randomization, whether in initial house placement or in house transfer, denies students that input. The substantial number of students who have requested to transfer houses in past years makes it clear just how important housing is for a student's quality of life. The three categories employed by the new procedure, randomized singles, groups and sponsored singles or pairs, are not responsive to the multitude of circumstances under which a student may want to switch houses. Many students...
...LeBow made noise about a possible takeover of cigarette maker American Brands. He lost his resolve but found a profit, making $30 million when he surprised other investors by selling the stock. He made one of his biggest killings early this decade. LeBow had bought the Western Union money-transfer business in 1987, and watched his company sink into bankruptcy in 1991. Then, amazingly enough, he managed to find a buyer for the business a couple of years ago, which allowed him to pay off old debts and emerge with some $300 million in cash--his springboard to the skirmish...