Word: unraveling
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...AIDS virus is called Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus Type III (HTLV-III) in America. And Harvard doctors seek to unravel the genetic and protein makeup of the virus. The work is particularly rewarding because at every turn the researchers seem to discover something which writes a new chapter in biology textbooks...
...week's end, however, the compromise threatened to unravel. Peres refused to sanction Moda'i's resumption of the finance post and again threatened to fire him, perhaps at a Sunday Cabinet meeting. That raised anew the specter of a government-toppling Likud walkout. But under Israel's parliamentary rules, the Likud would have to observe a 48-hour waiting period before taking action...
...young man invested with Montross's spirit, tells Diana that her grandfather has come back to reveal the sordid truth about her parents' past. Diana, in her attempt to unravel this cryptic mesage, somewhat predictably falls in love with Day. Her mission, then, becomes not only to pacify her grandfather's restless spirit, but to liberate Day from this psychic bond which prevents him from forming any more conventional ones with Diana...
...union seemed at first to make sense. But slowly and painfully, the ties between the executives began to unravel. By early this year, the men who ran Apple found themselves in profound disagreement over the direction of the firm. Said Sculley: "It became clear that we had to run the company with more discipline, and this meant Steve would have less freedom...
...succession of experts then began to unravel the prosecution's case on the basis of Sunny's medical records. One testified that Mrs. Von Bulow had taken 15 aspirin tablets, six to seven amobarbital capsules and a few stiff drinks before losing consciousness in 1980. Another asserted that Mrs. Von Bulow's comas were each caused by cardiopulmonary arrest. On Friday Dr. Arthur Rubenstein, an endocrinologist, testified that the positive insulin test results at the center of the state's case were invalid. "I personally would have no confidence in any of those values," he said. Claimed Puccio...