Word: directs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...depend on direct legal action...
Only as a last resort do the organizers use direct action tactics such as marches and rallies, they...
...issue of whether the HIV virus made the jump to humans via a vaccine, a direct blood infection from a monkey bite or any of the other hypotheses is of little scientific utility, and this area of inquiry is unlikely to draw research resources away from the more pressing search for a vaccine and a cure. But just as we're not satisfied with perennially checking the "don't know" box in explaining an air crash, we're burdened, as a culture, to find an explanation for a phenomenon that has killed 16 million people - and has infected 33 million...
...that any direct threat to health from genetically modified foods has been found, except by a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. potatoes damaged his lab rats. On the contrary, as scientists told the FDA, genetically modified foods could carry clear health benefits, such as delivering more nutrients, reducing spoilage and curtailing chemical contamination. Besides, natural doesn't always mean good: cassava, for example, can be toxic if not properly prepared...
...between little mergers and the monster variety (besides the obvious one of size). Although the conglomerate craze is waning, most big-time mergers still aim at a degree of diversification. But small firms almost always combine with others in the same industry. That, of course, frequently means mergers of direct competitors or potential competitors, like Personify and Anubis. But while trustbusters may try to stop such a merger between two giant competitors or at least attach onerous conditions, they are almost sure to ignore combinations of little competitors. It is difficult to imagine a combination the size of Personify-Anubis...