Word: customs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real power of ResEdit goes beyond simple cosmetic surgery which improves the style but not performance. Editing menus and command keys allows users to custom tailor programs to fit their individual styles...
BAILYN BASES his quantitative analysis on a massive computer survey of the Register of Emigrants, a British document listing and briefly describing every person officially known to have left Britain from December 1773 to March 1776. The Register--a survey compiled by custom officials at ports of debarkation--was to measure the degree of "American madness" which was purportedly sweeping the land, draining Britain economically as well as demographically...
...published as "news" a documentary custom-made by a network producer to fit his conspiracy theories about the Vietnam War. He had no qualms, it seems, about splicing together footage of questions and answers that didn't really follow each other, harassing and coaching witnesses or disregarding impressive sources who contradicted his thesis...
...like macrophages rush to the scene to gobble up infected cells. After about a week, if this first-tier defense fails to control the threat, says Fields, "you bring out the guided missiles." These are antibodies -- produced by B cells upon the order of helper T cells -- that are custom-designed to home in on certain antigens, distinctively shaped proteins that characterize a particular type of virus, and destroy the enemy or render it harmless...
...virile drumbeat, a machine gun, of toe tapping. Manuela Carrasco draws all eyes with an ethereal hauteur that is only accentuated by the jackhammer snap of her commanding heels and the swirl of her long ruffled gown. Some are known chiefly by their nicknames, which, according to Gypsy custom, are short and pungent: El Chocolate, for example, or El Biencasao (the Well-Married...