Word: function
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Exactly what these potentially devastating genes are doing in healthy cells is not clear, but the fact that they are present in so many species suggests that they perform an important function. "God knows, they haven't been conserved through evolution just to make tumors," says Varmus. These genes may play a role during fetal development and then become quiescent, unless activated or altered by carcinogens or cancer viruses. They start out as "normal, good genes," explains Molecular Biologist Robert Weinberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "but they become damaged during an individual's lifetime. When damaged...
...teaching is just liking your student and building a rapport," says Yee. "The English comes in there somewhere "Many tutors function effectively without knowing any Chinese, she says...
...Chinese leaders are hypersensitive on the Taiwan issue partly because they are feeling vulnerable to internal critics of their own. The huge Chinese Communist Party (39 million members) contains diehard Maoists, provincial military commanders who function as virtual warlords and others who oppose Deng Xiaoping's policy of turning to the capitalist world for help. They also accuse him of subjecting China to humiliation over the sale of the new U.S. jets to Taiwan...
...decisive objection to choosing the air strike alternative, rather than the imposition of a quarantine--the option that was taken--was that there was "nothing surgical about it. In fact, both the patient [Cuba] and doctor [The U.S.] could have died." But quarantine and blockade served a double function, he said. They demonstrated U.S. determination and delayed an immediate Soviet reply...
...heavy turnout and many fine candidates, and instead focused its coverage on organizations to whom the idea of public service has no meaning. Now, the Crimson has decided to make fun of the very people who have indicated that they are willing to work to make this new council function effectively...