Word: suppression
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Intending to alert students to jobs in public service, the Federal Work Study Office accidentally failed to "suppress" the e-mail addresses of half of the recipients...
...constantly checking ourselves for phoniness, irony forces us either to think more closely about how we feel or to joke honestly about the fact that we feel nothing. I'm worried that in the post-ironic world of Rosie O'Donnell, people suppress so much of their emotions that they believe they love Tom Cruise and peg their audience with Koosh balls...
...backers of the bill may not be able to jump over. "This is a classic First Amendment situation," says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The problem with the law the animal rights advocates are proposing is that it?s almost impossible to target only the evil you want to suppress." You run the risk, says Sanders, of eliminating other forms of expression: for example, documentaries about bullfights or cockfights, or movies in which cruelty to animals is simulated for legitimate purposes but not actually carried out. Sanders doubts this case is Supreme Court material, but even...
This discovery comes less than two years after Folkman published his lab's detection of the second of two protein fragments thought to suppress tumor growth. The three fragments have only been tested in animals, and it will be impossible to judge the potential of these substances in fighting human cancers until extensive clinical trials are held, at least...
They have launched a challenge to the law being used against them, calling it vague and outdated. It dates back to the 1960s when colonial governments were trying to suppress African nationalism, according to Chavunduka, and has probably not been used in 20 years...