Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...projects are envisioned, among them adding protein to staples like corn and changing the type of oil produced by soybeans. Pigs that grow faster and leaner and cows that manufacture medicine in their milk are other goals. Observes Arnold Foudin, a biotechnology specialist at the USDA: "Ideas that a short while ago might have been dismissed as harebrained Buck Rogers are now being taken quite seriously." It was only in 1983 that scientists inserted the first foreign genes into tobacco and petunias, the "white mice" of the plant world. In the years since, similar work has been done on about...
...Nowadays, if Rip Van Winkle were to fall asleep in the Soviet Union, he would only have time for a very short nap before finding that everything had changed!" It was Ronald Reagan in a familiar mode, the storyteller. But he had an unusual circle of listeners: the foreign affairs committee of the Supreme Soviet. The former President made a five-day tour of the Soviet Union last week, his first visit to the erstwhile Evil Empire since his 1988 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. He got a warm greeting from Gorbachev at the Kremlin, where the two embraced like...
Many student drinkers may have short-term drinking problems, but with time will learn to correct their behavior and drink with moderation. As one friend of mine said recently, "I would never think of getting so drunk so often as I did freshman year...
Angarita's speech was preceded by a short film about the social conflicts existing in Colombia today. The film, also in Spanish, covered the acute social and political problems in Colombia, including land ownership struggles, high unemployment rates, drug trafficking and terrorist activities...
...union's president, Domenic Bozzotto, gave an endorsement speech before Kemp spoke. He was followed by three union members, all of whom were recently naturalized citizens. They delivered short addresses in Spanish, Chinese and French...