Word: furthering
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This time, though, a man named Don Sweeney got in the way. Sweeney, a civilian economist with the corps for 22 years, was asked to head a team to justify the cost of the new locks. He found that they would not be needed until 2040 and that any slowdowns...
But while the announcement has been exquisitely choreographed to make the two scientists look like equals, it's clear to insiders that Venter's project is a lot further along. HGP scientists may have decoded 97% of the genome's letters--the remaining 3% are generally considered unsequenceable and irrelevant...
There is hardly a religious group in America that is not beset by the issue that rent the Methodist meeting in May: the place of gay people in its pews. In March the organization of Reform Jewish rabbis agreed that its members could perform gay-holy-union ceremonies if they...
Since the gimbal could turn the boat only so much, the ILM crew had to jostle it further after scanning footage into the computer. And since no miniatures were used, "for a very wide shot," says ILM's associate effects supervisor Doug Smythe, "the boat would be computer-generated as...
Hanging over it all was a certain legal proceeding. Days earlier, Microsoft got rare good news: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson stayed his order dividing up the company pending appeal. Microsoft lawyers were busily drafting briefs urging the Supreme Court to hold back and let a presumably more pro-Microsoft appeals...