Word: basic
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...hangers." Since the shop window is close to the street, Vaughn gets to take lots of mental style notes. The East Village influence is found in the attention to detail, be it a faux fur collar, a tapestry print or a funky button. Each collection highlights the basic black to which she finds her customers are strongly addicted...
...therapies are emerging from two extraordinary decades of intense basic research, a fantastic voyage that scientists are taking into the heart of the cancer cell. "The life and death of cells is being worked out, and the dozens and dozens of molecules in the body that participate in those pathways are now becoming targets for therapy," says Alan Houghton, a medical oncologist and immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in Manhattan...
...travesties of this election drama will not quickly leave the collective American consciousness. Serious doubts over Bush's legitimacy, the impartiality of the Supreme Court and the basic functioning of our democratic process have been raised. They will not fade easily. But the one glimmer of hope that we can garner from the ebbing chaos is that these lingering questions should serve in the long run to improve our democracy and the functioning of the American government...
...used to be that if you wanted it enough, you could find some sort of job," Jeune says. "Now, you need a basic knowledge of the language because people won't take the time to explain things to you. Now, you need a certificate even to clean a nursing home...
...cases had been together from the beginning. They shared not only the essential issues but most of the Bush legal team, and the basic facts in both were never in dispute: Two Republican supervisors of elections had allowed Republican party workers access to two stacks of absentee ballot applications, in order to fill in voter ID numbers - left off the forms in a printing error - and save the applications from the trash...