Nonetheless, Thomas and Chess had effectively nixed the idea that babies are born 'blank slates' who passively receive and are moulded by the environment.
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The company has a bureaucratic feel but has proved very useful over the years with its research activities and ability to champion and nix costly endeavors.
Second, some of them nixed the tadpole stage of life, so that fully-developed adults hatched from eggs, which cut down on the need for a body of water to grow up in.
You know, he looked at reviewing all the regulators — there's more than 100 — and so far they've only nixed one, which is a sort of a tiny one that barely anyone's heard of.