Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those of you familiar with the movie "Reservoir Dogs" (which should be everyone since you all have that stupid poster with the triangular standoff on your walls) will remember the oft-cited restaurant scene in which Mr. Pink reveals his disdain for tipping. He hates it. I too have a restaurant peeve: ice in the drinks...
...hope, anyway, of a handful of U.S. record executives who are betting big that a pack of new Latin music stars can cross over and tap the vast English-speaking market. "I have no crystal ball, but my gut tells me that Latin music can be the next big reservoir of talent for mainstream superstars," says Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola, whose company is spending millions hiring market-savvy producers like Puff Daddy and David Foster to help Latin pop join country and hip-hop in the American mainstream...
...some time, scientists have known that a small African monkey called the sooty mangabey is the natural reservoir of a virus very similar to HIV-2, which causes a milder form of AIDS found largely in western Africa. But the source of HIV-1, the dominant cause of the AIDS pandemic, has remained elusive to virus hunters like Alabama's Dr. Beatrice Hahn. Long on the trail of links between HIV and kindred simian viruses, she jumped at the chance to examine old tissue samples (stored, as it turns out, in a freezer at the National Cancer Institute) from...
Researchers at M.I.T. reported last week in Nature that they had built the first prototype "pharmacy on a chip," a tiny reservoir-filled microchip that could be made small enough to be swallowed or injected and smart enough to release drugs or hormones in a predetermined order...
...When a small electric charge is applied to a particular reservoir, the chloride ions react with the gold membrane and dissolve it, releasing the enclosed substance...