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Ever since the pioneering transplant operations of the 1960s, the chief obstacle to the full recovery of transplant patients has been the immune system's xenophobic zeal to destroy anything that is foreign to the body. Once the alien threat has been identified, agents known as helper T cells unleash the powerful immune response that attacks grafted tissue. During the 1970s, physicians found that they could minimize this reaction by more closely matching the MHC proteins, or immunological "dog tags," of a donor with those of the recipient. Even so, they could not completely eliminate the rejection response. To make...
...union wins the election. Economic democracy as exemplified by union representation can be fine in theory and fine also in practice for some (particularly for the advocates who become union officers) but it can be desperately unpleasant for many, particularly for those who may not have the zeal or objectives of the leadership. There can be all the stress of union meetings, oratory and public votes, with the nastiness of peer pressure, office friction and ostracism for dissidents. All of this, of course, is heightened and perpetuated if there is a "job action" or consideration...
Every fundraising division, even for the most admirable organization, must give special attention to those wealthy enough to meet their needs. But to start stratifying a graduating class even before it enters the company of educated men and women is unnecessary. It indicates a certain zeal for money that can lead to abnormalities as happened at the Kennedy School...
...myth does not integrate the bad Bobby, the mean Bobby, into its memory. | It glosses over the young Kennedy who, as counsel to Joseph McCarthy, relished hunting down Communists; the zeal with which he pursued Jimmy Hoffa; the campaign manager who cut down political bosses who did not toe the party line; the Attorney General who acquiesced in J. Edgar Hoover's request to tap the phone of Martin Luther King...
...other hand, Salovaara treats his character, George Tesman, with appropriate zeal and with particular stress on the comedic. As Salovaara doen't take his character too seriously, his performance is one of the play's funniest...