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Those priorities will be largely determined by the inroads made by other candidates. Senator Birch Bayh is counting on a good showing in Florida, where he has been laying groundwork for months, and in California. Coupled with a native-son sweep in Indiana, wins in Florida and California might get him a chance at the nomination. George McGovern, the only announced Democrat, must cut deeply into Muskie's New Hampshire vote if he is to stay alive as a candidate; after that, he hopes for a win in Wisconsin to go along with a home-state victory in South...
...Spiegelman: "An effort to cure cancer at this time might be like trying to land a man on the moon without knowing Newton's laws of motion." A better-funded research effort could help science to understand more about the many diseases that are cancer. But until that groundwork is done, any talk of curing cancer may well raise false hopes-and lead to disappointment...
...groundwork for the Heath-Pompidou sessions had been laid the week before in Brussels. During an all-night meeting, the Foreign Ministers of the Six and British Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon reached working arrangements on three major points concerning British entry. They were preferential treatment for Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, British adjustments to the EEC's higher-priced agricultural produce, and a formula for British contributions to the EEC's central budget. A number of other developments, however, helped ensure a hospitable climate for last week's summit meeting. One was West Germany's recent unilateral...
...encouraged in his belief by the results of his experiments with rats. When he taught them special tasks, he discovered that the RNA had not only increased in quantity but was different in quality from ordinary RNA. In short, what Hydén did was to lay the groundwork for a molecular theory of memory...
...fight goes down to its final stage, Proxmire's groundwork is largely done. Testimony of economists and environmentalists is already in, and the body of information he has developed against the plane over the years is well known to his colleagues. He does not wring votes from fellow Senators with deals and high-pressure promises, as members of the club would do, but he relishes the upcoming battle for the final handful of votes: "It's going to be a goddam interesting week...