Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leaders of the domestic Mass Democratic Movement are in a quandary: they tend to favor negotiations because the process might lead to government concessions that are unforeseen now, but they do not want to go to the table if their presence offers nothing but a public relations success for De Klerk by making him look like a peacemaker. Ramaphosa, head of the black National Union of Mineworkers, concedes that the government does appear to be seeking change. "One could say they are willing to usher in a new South Africa," he says, "but some of us have serious doubts because...
...would, in certain ways, remain an abstract expressionist at heart, a painter who loved spontaneous gesture and the kind of unforeseen imagery that popped out of it. From the big red hand (of God?) that appears in Eden, 1956, to the shamelessly romantic sky space that hangs behind the lavender blobs of pigment in Sacrifice Decision, 1981, one sees traces of the surrealist ideas that had formed Pollock -- an openness to the kind of unsought private image that was generally barred from color-field painting. Frankenthaler disliked programs and was not a self-conscious avant-gardist...
...feeling now is that unless something unforeseen and dramatic happens, the principle that it ought to be used by the FAS is acceptable to the central administration," Spence said...
...they have been willing to listen. "There's a lot more trust with these guys than there ever was with the Reagan crowd," says Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, a persistent critic of Reagan's Central America policy. "We're a fair way from agreement, but barring the unforeseen, I think we'll get there...
Easier said than done. Scientists have had trouble getting such implanted genes to "turn on" in their new environment, and they worry about unforeseen consequences if the gene is inserted in the wrong place in a chromosome. Should the gene be slipped into the middle of another vital gene, for example, it might disrupt the functioning of that gene, with disastrous consequences. Also, says M.I.T. biologist Richard Mulligan, there are limitations to the viral insertion of genes. "Most genes," he explains, "are too big to fit into a retrovirus...