Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rise in OPEC prices since 1970; they cannot do without oil but cannot afford to buy it. Admits an official of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: "The guy who was en lightened enough to follow our advice to buy machinery and fertilizer is in a bind, while the farmer who kept his water buffalo is in much better shape...
About three months ago he discovered that two proteins of the virus bind to the host cell's DNA and determine the cell's growth pattern. One protein activates the genes that trigger destructive growth, while the other, the repressor protein counteracts the growth...
...last May, hospitals are no longer required to perform abortions upon demand except in case of probable death to the mother. Legislation restricting abortions to hospitals with full obstetrical care (rather than women's health clinics), now before the Massachusetts House, could place the woman in a double bind. Also under Massachusetts debate is an "Informed Consent" bill which essentially amounts to harrassment: the bill requires spouse and parental notification, with consent of parents or courts for minors, full information concerning the viability and appearance of the fetus, description of the aborting technique, anad a 24-hour waiting period after...
...gaps, he said. He did not mention, however, the circumstances with which Harvard upperclassmen are sadly familiar--the University's neglect of its students' educations. This is not the first time history students have been left stranded; a few years ago European history concentrators found themselves in the same bind as this year's American history students...
What caused the new optimism was a tiny, ephemeral bit of matter that has neither mass nor charge. Known whimsically as the gluon (pronounced glue-on), it is believed to carry the so-called strong force, which helps bind together the other tiny particles-some 200 at last count-that make up the minuscule world of the atomic nucleus. When physicists first postulated the sticky little gluons more than five years ago, they were only theoretical concepts: no one knew whether they really existed outside their equations or were just some more scribblings on the blackboard...