Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have no great solution to offer. But I think common sense would dictate to most of us that we shouldn't concoct policy to fit our donors. But then again, we aren't the ones in Washington...
...backgrounds of previously static scenes. Extra spaceships with keener moves now flesh out some of the climactic battle scenes. A scene has been restored between Han Solo and the reptilian loan shark Jabba the Hutt that was discarded when Lucas couldn't figure out a satisfactory way to concoct Jabba (he finally appeared as a mammoth rubbery puppet in Return of the Jedi; he's computer generated here). "One thing leads to another," says Lucas. "You paint part of the house, and then you say, 'Well, gee, this room looks great, but now the rest of the house doesn...
Physicists half jokingly call it the TOE--Theory of Everything. The idea is to describe all matter, all energy, all the fundamental forces of nature in one tidy, elegant set of equations. But it's so devilishly difficult that Einstein spent his last years in frustration trying to concoct just a partial solution to the problem...
Holiday trappings range from simple white lights strung around window frames to elaborate set-ups students concoct from items either bought in the Square or brought from home...
...newborn monkeys with immature immune systems did not respond as healthy adults do. All the young primates, in fact, developed the very disease the weakened virus was supposed to prevent. For this and a host of other reasons, most AIDS researchers argue that the only prudent strategy is to concoct a hybrid vaccine, putting the key features of a disabled AIDS virus into something more benign than a retrovirus. Among the leading candidates: the vaccinia virus that successfully wiped out smallpox...