Word: piggybacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free- market economies?" No one even tried. "Dole was right," says a Clinton adviser, "and the argument's going to be made again now that we want new money for Yeltsin. The question is whether we'll have the guts to make the case ourselves or whether we'll piggyback on Congress" -- assuming, of course, that Congress prefers the third rail to root canal...
...copy-cat syndrome," Johnson said. "After that guy from Austria started to call people 'Korean Bitch,' other people started to piggyback...
...years ago, a piggyback ride from saucy Sassy might have been bumpy. At its 1988 start-up, the magazine's frank material -- the pros and cons of virginity, for example -- drew the fire of the Moral Majority, and advertisers turned shy. They returned after the magazine softened its controversial profile...
Like the retrovirus used by Anderson, Rosenberg's delivery system has been made harmless and endowed by recombinant DNA techniques with a human gene. But this gene codes for tumor necrosis factor, a naturally occurring compound that attacks cancer cells. The altered viruses insert themselves and their piggyback gene into the genetic material of the TILs, which are then injected back into the bloodstream of the melanoma patients. If everything goes as planned, the activated TILs will home in on the tumors like guided missiles, attacking the cancerous cells and at the same time releasing the antitumor factor to help...