Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovered that RNA can act as an enzyme, a molecule that accelerates chemical reactions a millionfold or more and makes it possible for life to exist. Plants, for example, depend on enzymes to convert carbon dioxide in the air to sugar and starch. An enzyme in human saliva helps transform starch into glucose, the body's energy source. Until RNA enzymes were identified, all enzymes were thought to be proteins...
...House panel proposes emission limits that could transform the American car. -- Donald Trump bids $7.5 billion for AMR, the parent of American Airlines. -- Boeing is hit by a strike...
Over the years, California has given the rest of the country everything from health food to a taxpayers' revolt. Now it has bequeathed another far-reaching legacy to its sister states: a clampdown on auto-emission standards that could help transform the American car and the fuel that makes it run. To the discomfort of U.S. automakers, a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted unanimously last week to adopt California's strict limits for the 1990s as the law of the land. The measure, which seemed certain to win House approval, would cut existing levels of tail-pipe pollutants...
...real impotence notwithstanding, the council undoubtedly possesses the stature to transform the campus political scene, as we saw last year with both the ROTC controversy and the calls for increased hiring of women and minority faculty...
...flag is now a secular symbol, would an amendment against desecrating it transform it, by implication, into a sacred symbol? Would such an act approximate the founding of a state religion...