Word: austin
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...until the mid-1960s did researchers learn how to fertilize mammalian eggs in vitro on a regular basis. The groundwork was laid by M.C. Chang of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass., and C.R. Austin of Cambridge University, who had solved the problem of in-vitro capacitation of rabbit sperm, a process that enabled sperm to penetrate the egg in the laboratory. Until then, the sperm were notably ineffectual in that role. But these early successes 'involved creatures no higher than rabbits, hamsters and mice...
...Austin Currie, 38, is the protesting Ulster parliamentarian whose initial sit-in at a County Tyrone public housing development sparked the civil rights movement. He now lives outside Dungannon in a house equipped with bulletproof glass, security locks, alarms and floodlights. The house, peppered with 68 bullet holes, has been attacked more than 20 times by extremists of both sides. Currie's wife Annita has been brutally beaten by intruders, who scratched UVF (for the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force) on her bosom. Says Currie: "What has happened here over the past ten years is only larger and more intense...
...goes beyond prices. It also involves conflicting ideas of how the Government should help the sugar industry meet foreign competition. The Administration favors direct subsidies; this would keep down prices to housewives and big consumers (including Coca-Cola, which is headed by Carter's old friend J. Paul Austin). But subsidizing low-priced sugar reduces demand for corn fructose. Congress favors sugar import duties and quotas, which would raise prices and help producers of both sugar and corn sweeteners...
...Congressman has agreed to sponsor it. Because it would keep the price of sugar lower than the Church bill, the President's proposal does have the enthusiastic backing of big sugar users like the Coca-Cola Co., which is headed by Jimmy Carter's old friend, J. Paul Austin...
...quashed last Friday when senior captain Todd Lundy lost his opening round singles match at the NCAA championships in Athens, Ga., to SMU's Harron Ismaiol, Stanford had earlier defeated UCLA for the team championship, while Stanford's John McEnroe garnered the singles title Monday and UCLA's John Austin and Bruce Nichols won the doubles crown...