Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participants were constrained from publicizing what they knew." Talbott managed nevertheless to fill his "SALT notebook"- overfill it, to be precise. His expanded version of this week's Special Report will be published by Harper & Row as Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II. Is that the last word? Not at all, says Talbott. "Preparations for SALT III are already under...
While Porter sought out the supportive embraces of his girlfriend and Jay Smith fielded a barrage of questions from reporters, Parker wandered about silently, seeking out each of his athletes for a firm handshake and a typically brief word or two of wisdom...
...boarding Thomas' train of thought is the puckish delight he takes in turning beliefs or assumptions upside down. The current to-do about the likelihood of cloning humans? Not worth worrying about, Thomas says, and impossible besides. But (and most of his essays pivot merrily on that word) he has a suggestion for those who cannot resist tinkering: "Set cloning aside, and don't try it. Instead go in the other direction. Look for ways to get mutations more quickly, new variety, different songs." Continued genetic errors, after all, enabled the primeval strand of DNA to diversify into...
Thomas' "error," a word he traces back to an old root meaning "to wander about, looking for something," occurred in 1970, when he put together a short, casual talk on the phenomenon of inflammation and what it might represent as a biological process. He delivered it at a symposium held at Upjohn Co.'s Brook Lodge in Michigan. A member of the audience passed a copy of the speech to Dr. Franz Joseph Ingelfinger, then the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger had already roiled the academic waters by warning potential contributors that medical research...
...relax his critical faculties. Although the authors attempt to offer an objective analysis, as advocates of the theory, they tend to be overenthusiastic. It's not that they do not present opposing views (which they do), it's just that Woodcock and Davis always get the last word. Every objection is countered, and for a while it seems as if catastrophe theory really is the successor to the calculus--until the authors present a series of applications of their own device. The reader's reaction to these examples will most likely determine whether he becomes an advocate or opponent...