Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Although NATO is now training forces to function on contaminated battlefields, "The U.S. has never practiced extended field exercises," says Meselson. "Only thorough training and discipline will provide adequate protection," he adds...
...bend, and roofs and ceiling invert on each other. Mirror Way at the Fogg is an elaborate experiment in such deception: pathways are blocked, stairs run up into floors, a ladder leads up to a slatted roof which then leads nowhere. In short, the structure is illogical--it feigns functionalism and yet refuses to function...
...zone" around the foot of the mountain. Some of those denied access have accused the Forest Service and the U.S.G.S. of conspiring to corner data from the mountain, using bureaucratic red tape to keep out competing researchers. One regulation: each investigating team must have a radio operator, a function that is being performed by local hams. But now there are not enough to go around, and scientists must wait days to get one. Moans Portland State's Allen, head of the screening committee: "Dozens and dozens of scientists have been turned away, and we've lost invaluable information...
...Corporation comes to the aid of ailing University budgets because all University departments function as financially separate units-one may do very well while others may flounder, Barry said...
...will they be modified or inactivated by the animal's own genetic machinery? Will the foreign genes free-float in the cells or will they latch on to the other genes arranged along the chromosomes? Will genes that normally are switched on only in specific types of cells function in the same way when they have been introduced into other types of cells through genetic engineering? Finally, will transplanted genes be inherited by the animal's descendants...