Word: basic
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...Boston Sparticist League, which is named after the 1919 Germany Communist workers uprising, and says their goal is October revolutions all over the world, also holds a summer lecture series on “basic Marxism” every Saturday afternoon in Loker Commons...
...Saudis have joined in pushing publicly for such a truce increases the political pressure on Hamas, which wants to avoid appearing at odds with the Arab world. Besides its clandestine terror wing, Hamas maintains a huge health-, education- and welfare infrastructure on the West Bank and Gaza, often providing basic services where the PA fails to deliver. And that civil infrastructure, which has been the foundation of Hamas's political popularity, is maintained in large part through funding from charities in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states...
...have long known that DNA can be strung together in a lab. "It's being done more for effect and less for the advancement of science." Critics weren't comforted by the news that the Pentagon funded the study (cost: about $300,000) as part of its program of basic research on human pathogens...
SOHN: There is a crisis of confidence in the stock market. It is wider and deeper and more basic than it used to be. People are saying, "I knew the stock market was a gamble, but I thought it was an honest casino. I am mad and angry, and I am going out and buying a car or house instead of being in the stock market...
Even some basic bodily responses are different. Men often react to pain with a rise in blood pressure, but women may experience a rise in heart rate--and sometimes even a blood-pressure drop. Yet after surgery, doctors often gauge levels of pain by blood pressure, not heart rate. --By Sora Song