Word: construction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart-patient trial, St. Elizabeth's Isner found a novel way around the delivery problem. Eschewing virus carriers, he fashioned a construct called "naked DNA." It consists of part of a human gene called VEG-F, which stimulates the growth of blood vessels, and includes its signal segments. These segments, Isner explains, "order the cell, once it has manufactured the gene product, to export it from the cell...
This production has its weak points. The set, a difficult one to construct due to the frequent changes required, was a bit rudimentary. The first scene, in which some of the main philosophical problems of the play are set out, is constructed so that two or three dialogues occur at the same time, though no two people speak simultaneously. Though kept distinct from one another, the dialogues blend intellectually and ideologically to set the stage for the ensuing action. This jumping from one conversation to the next requires, of course, a perfect knowledge of the text and an exquisite sense...
...should have given more than just a mention to engineer Stephen Bechtel's monumental achievement in creating the entire municipality of Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It cannot have been easy to construct on the edge of the desert out of thin air. KHURRAM AHMED TAJI Islamabad, Pakistan...
Those of us in the religious minority celebrate our various holidays in the privacy of our rooms, or in other appropriately designated community spaces. Students celebrating Christmas are certainly free to do likewise--they can erect trees, mount wreaths, hang lights from their fire escapes, even construct nativity scenes in their own private domains. If they want to share their holiday they can invite friends over for a Christmas party...
...loans help bankroll such projects as a waterfront restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla. (it later went out of business), a downtown hotel in Philadelphia and an upscale fashion retailer in Spokane, Wash. In that case, a $24 million HUD loan arranged by the city of Spokane will go to construct a new store and enlarge a parking garage for Nordstrom...