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Word: probing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent administration decision to form a sweatshop labor oversight committee, probably monitored by accounting firm Price-Waterhouse-Coopers, is a good sign. In response to student protests over possible sweatshop activities involving companies manufacturing Harvard apparel, the administration has shown its willingness to probe deeper to correct this egregious abuse of human labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is the Price Right? | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...scientists' probe, known as a contrast agent, targets a specific enzyme in the tumor known as cathepsin b. The enzyme turns on the compound "like a switch," said Research Fellow in Radiology Ching H. Tung, who co-authored the experiment with first author Weissleder, senior author and Assistant Professor of Radiology Alexei A. Bogdanov and Clinical Fellow in Radiology Umar Mahmood...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Medical School Team Discovers Compounds Which Can Illuminate Tumors, Detect Cancer in Laboratory Mice | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...findings could potentially be used to evaluate an anti-cancer drug designed to suppress enzymes inside tumors. If the enzymes are suppressed, they will not turn on the probe signal. Scientists would consider the lowered response to the probe a good sign...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Medical School Team Discovers Compounds Which Can Illuminate Tumors, Detect Cancer in Laboratory Mice | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...scientists' probe, known as a contrast agent, targets a specific enzyme in the tumor known as cathepsin b. The enzyme turns on the compound "like a switch," said Research Fellow in Radiology Ching H. Tung, who co-authored the experiment with first author Weissleder, senior author and Assistant Professor of Radiology Alexei A. Bogdanov and Clinical Fellow in Radiology Umar Mahmood...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Med School Study Finds Agent that Can Detect Tumors | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...done. Why didn't the FBI and DOE monitor computer activity at Los Alamos more closely? Why did the Justice Department turn down the FBI's appeal for help? Freeh and former Energy Secretaries Pena and Hazel O'Leary are certain to be targets of the Cox panel's probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Time To Panic? | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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