Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: President Clinton is running out of privileges. A federal judge Friday ruled that Secret Service agents must testify before the Lewinsky grand jury, rejecting arguments made by the Secret Service that such testimony would damage the close -- and vital -- relationship between U.S. Presidents and their protectors...
Since every gene holds the recipe for a vital protein, corrupt genes mean corrupt proteins: too much of one protein, too little of another, or a misshapen protein that doesn't function properly. The new generation of cancer drugs takes aim at these defective proteins, blocking them, disrupting them in myriad ways. Unlike old-fashioned chemotherapy drugs, the new substances don't poison the tumor--an approach that usually causes collateral damage to healthy cells. Instead, they aim to halt the processes that make a cancer cell act like a cancer cell in the first place...
...allure of do-it-yourself trading is transforming both Wall Street and Main Street. Traditional brokerages, whose lock on vital information made them the market's gatekeepers, are changing their approach, and their fees. Meanwhile, a frenzied mob of e-traders has linked itself to a rapidly growing number of web trading sites. Today there are over 60 e-brokers, more than twice the number of a year ago. Many are electronic branches of such giants as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments, but others, like E*Trade and Datek Online, dwell mainly in cyberspace. The e-brokerages themselves have been...
...many businesses, acquiring customers is expensive, so holding on to them is vital. Ameritrade spent $25 million to add 50,000 new accounts in the fourth quarter last year, bringing its total to more than 200,000. That's $500 for each new account, well above the $300 that brokers usually spend to acquire new clients. Such hefty expenditures contributed to Ameritrade's loss of $11.5 million over its past two quarters...
Said Will Devlin, clutching a Paglia book, "She's vital, she's intelligent...