Word: explained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those with the translocation do not always develop cancer. The doctors have taken cells from family members and frozen them, preserving them for the day when they have more sophisticated techniques for studying individual genes within the chromosomes. But until then they will be at a loss to explain exactly why a translocation can make a family cancer prone. Says Brown: "What we found may be a breakthrough. The fact is we don't know...
...actor whose somber presence of ten gives way to humanizing bursts of humor. The bad James Earl Jones is so unrelievedly grave he could turn an audience to stone. This series, which casts Jones as Police Detective Woody Paris, brings out the actor's worst. Watching Paris explain his crime-solving logic is about as much fun as hearing an insurance sales pitch. The show's troubles do not end there. The supporting cast is amateurish, and the identity of the murder culprit in the opening episode can be guessed after the first scene. It does not take...
...eventually present unreasonable demands and break up the conference. Then, according to the Times, the Thatcher government in Whitehall could recognize the Salisbury government and refuse to renew economic sanctions against it when they expire in November. If the Front torpedoed the conference, this argument runs, Mrs. Thatcher could explain to her colleagues in the Commonwealth--and the to front line states of Africa--that she had no choice but to recognize Zimbabwe. And if Britain extended recognition, there would be pressure for the United States Congress to follow suit...
...press from trials. Whatever the outcome in that case or in others that are sure to come up to the high court, the Justices have created the uncertainty themselves. Something is clearly amiss when, as Michigan Law School Professor Yale Kamisar puts it, "Justices have to explain their decisions at the next annual A.B.A. meeting...
...forbidden works included The Arts of David Levine, with a caricature of Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. When it was shown that Levine also lampooned American politicians, Ramaz Mchelidze, deputy general director of the fair, observed without irony, "We have different customs." Publishers may profit from the difference - which might explain their unwillingness, despite loud harrumphs, to pull out of the fair. In the '40s, getting a book banned in Boston was tantamount to a free ride on the bestseller list. Being maligned in Moscow may provide an equally large audience...