Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing to express the serious concerns of the Office of Scientific Integrity and the National Institutes of Health regarding headlines that appeared over two stories published by your newspaper on November 16 and 17. The articles concerned the Harvard University "Six Cities Study." The headline of particular concern read, "Air Study May Have False Data, NIH Says." This headline has no basis in fact...
PROFESSOR of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer uttered these frank words yesterday. Speaking at an Asian-American Association forum, the distinguished academic criticized the extension of affirmative action guidelines to minorities other than Black Americans in general, and to Asian-Americans in particular...
...Rifkin's first assaults on DNA technology was directed at Steven Lindow, a plant pathologist for the University of California, Berkeley. Lindow had discovered a way of snipping a particular gene from bacteria so that the redesigned microbes resisted frost formation down to 24 degrees F. Theoretically, crops sprayed with the microbes could be protected from cold snaps. In 1983 Lindow got permission from the NIH to test his bugs, which he called ice-minus, on a small plot of potatoes in Northern California...
...first volume of Walter Farley's classic series about a boy and his wild Arabian horse was adapted into this visually stunning film. Ballard's first feature reveals his particular talent for capturing dramatic landscapes as well as the power and natural beauty of animals...
...loan system to defend). Probably not, say many dealers. But others think the idea is worth serious thought, though none believe it likely to happen while Washington still clings to the conservative catchword of deregulation. Besides, says Eugene Thaw, the doyen of U.S. private dealers, Sotheby's in particular may have enough political clout in New York to defeat a further tightening of the rules...