Word: wrenching
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...Researchers have wrung other kinds of information out of cancer cells, including the way they spur the formation of blood vessels, which nourish their growth. Avastin, approved in 2004, is the first drug to throw a wrench into the process by suppressing a tumor's ability to recruit vascular growth factors. As with many of the newer therapies, doctors have found that it works best as part of a cocktail of cancer drugs...
Indeed, if there is one characteristic that distinguishes Poles, whether they are wielding a wrench or a stethoscope, it's a capacity for work--at least, that's what many employers say. Jarek Czernek, the general manager of Aluglass Ireland, a business that installs glass siding, says the 100 fellow countrymen he employs "are work oriented. They want to work a lot. They will work whenever you ask them...
...drug developer, HIV is nothing but a thief. All the virus wants to do is break inside a healthy cell, steal its genetic machinery, and start profiting from the intrusion. To stop a thief, you need to throw a monkey wrench - or several - into his plans...
...feeling of hollowness or incompleteness,” he says. “It kind of knocked the wind out of me. I’m still catching my breath. I felt like I was on one trajectory the last three years at Harvard. This kind of threw a wrench in that and shook that up.”Nevertheless, Dern says he still got a few boons out of the process. “It’s been a lot of time for reflection,” he says of his time on the show...
...prohibitively high. The commercial, which had four alternate endings, showed a pair of auto mechanics inadvertently touching lips while sharing a Snickers bar. To compensate for their accidental smooch, they “do something manly” like tear out chest hair, hit one another with a wrench or a car hood, or drink motor oil and windshield washer fluid. It clearly doesn’t get more manly than that...