Word: unravels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact of AIDS and will surely not be the last, but it will probably rank with the best. It begins with Brandstetter's discovery of a corpse on his doorstep, the latest in a string of victims who were all dying of the virus already. His effort to unravel what turns out to be two related mysteries takes him to the homes of abandoned victims, grieving families and lovers, co- workers deep into denial. Their quicksand feelings of fear mingled with shame and rage are powerfully drawn and linger in the mind. Apart from its virtues as fiction, Hansen...
...sexual development; without it, the fetus will be female. The scientists, whose findings appear in the Dec. 24 issue of the journal Cell, caution that the evidence is still circumstantial, and the discovery will have no immediate application. Even so, says UCLA Geneticist Larry Shapiro, "they have begun to unravel one of the most complex mysteries of biology. We have a long way to go, but this is certainly a major step along...
...late-night carouser, Roark had vehemently denied long-standing rumors that he used cocaine. But his protestations began to unravel at the trial of a Charleston businessman in January, when a real estate agent testified that he had sold the drug to the mayor on four occasions...
...scandal started to unravel when junior James C. Jacobsen, the assembly vice president, privately confronted the president of the government, junior Kathryn E. Sampeck, with evidence that he said proved that she had stuffed a ballot box while working as a poll watcher in a campus cafeteria...
...fraud began to unravel last January when, following a warehouse fire, police discovered falsified bank orders in Agrokomerc's records. Newspapers, relying on government leaks, began running stories on the scandal in August. Earlier this month the entire governing boards of both Agrokomerc and the Privredna Banka branch were fired, while Abdic and seven others were jailed on charges of "counterrevolutionary activities." Following demands for a purge of the Bosnian hierarchy from Communist leaders in Belgrade, the capital, 50 functionaries were expelled from the republic's party organization...