Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benacerraf, 59, who teaches at Harvard, has further defined the histocompatibility complex. He was intrigued by the variable nature of the immune response-the body's defense against such foreign invaders as viruses. In experiments with mice and guinea pigs, Benacerraf found that the genes that control the vigor of the immune response are part of the major histocompatibility complex...
...There are few people in the field of biology who have had such a profound influence over several decades, not only on the work of his colleagues, but also on their attitudes as human beings. He was a man of remarkable vigor, integrity, and sensitivity," Wiesel said Sunday...
...colleagues on the board with a rhetorical question: "Recession, where is thy anti-inflationary sting?" Instead of halting the runaway rise in consumer prices, the decline seems merely to have kept the inflationary pressure bottled up and ready to escape at the first sign of renewed economic vigor...
Edward Martin '82, who also roomed with Fagnani, stressed his popularity and vigor. "He met a lot of people while he was here, and he is really well remembered," he said...
Most home handymen used to be harmless basement tinkerers who whiled away their leisure hours building knotty-pine bookshelves. No longer. With a vigor born of economic necessity, more and more Americans are pushing themselves away from the TV set and doing their own home improvements. Risking blackened thumbnails and sawdust-filled eyes, they are installing bathrooms, insulating attics and renovating whole houses. Do-it-yourselfers this year are expected to spend nearly $28 billion, about three times as much as just seven years...