Word: inhibitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists do not know how an overdose of L-dopa kills the cancerous cells, but Wick suggested in the Science article that the chemical may inhibit the copying process of DNA, the code of life necessary for new cells to form and grow. Wick believes that an excessive amount of L-dopa may inactivate the key chemical needed for putting together copies...
Carter does intend to propose taxing all capital gains at full ordinary-income rates (at present, only half the profit on sales of assets such as stock and real estate is usually taxed). Businessmen complain that that would inhibit the very investment the President says he is so anxious to promote. Says James L. Moody Jr., president of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine food distributor: "The chief incentive to invest in business is to make money. Such proposals will slow down businessmen's investments in the U.S. at a time when countries like the Soviet Union and Japan...
...fast-breaking color photographs. These, we thought, required a simpler, cleaner-looking environment. Managing Editor Henry Grunwald finds the new design "neat and orderly. It should encourage discipline and emphasize organization, which is at the heart of the newsmagazine principle. But this sense of order will not inhibit us. Quite the contrary, it will make the occasional splash, the bold visual gesture easier...
Death Threats. They were married in October 1970, but not until Carew had received a number of death threats. Rod and Marilynn did not let the racism of the fans inhibit their lives, and, characteristically, they did not complain about the insults to Twins officials and teammates. (Carew had long before learned to live with prejudice. Even today, he sometimes hears a fan shouting racial slurs from the safety of the stands.) The Panamanian was swept into Marilynn's family-her mother has lived with them for four years. Marriage and children-Charryse, 3½, and Stephanie, 2-have...
...nation's energy problems was "the moral equivalent of war." The American Institute of Architects faults the program for not counting items like sunshades as energy savers worthy of tax credits. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists claims that some of the bill's pricing proposals will inhibit drilling. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is concerned about the entire program, saying that it would eliminate a million jobs, cause a 2% drop in the nation's output of goods and services, boost inflation by 2.7% and shrink business investment...