Word: extinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer of 1974, the Love homestead has become a landmark in North American paleontology. In seven years of excavation, Webb and his students have dug up-from what has been dubbed the Love Bone Bed-bits and pieces of more than 100 species of animals, many of them long extinct. All date back to the late Miocene epoch, about 9 million years ago. Among the finds: saber-toothed tigers, four-tusked mastodons, a giant camel some 18 ft. high, an extinct raccoon as big as a bear, various ancient horses and dogs -and the Carcharodon megalodon, a relative...
...During the 1970s, our taxes stayed low, our services declined and the city lost 24% of its population," said Voinovich. "At that rate, the city will be extinct in the 21st century." The voters got the message: last February they voted for the tax hike...
...major weakness of his solution lies in its implementation. Thomas Edison believed when he invented motion pictures that within 50 years newspapers would be extinct and that no one would be learning from books. What Edison did not realize was that some changes will never be made because society does not want more efficiency at the expense of institutions. Similarly, people want to feel they are needeed for work. There are already millions of elderly people who don't want to retire but must. Most countries are highly nationalistic, with no desire to be integrated into a world-wide super...
...longtime observer of French politics. "He's not exactly the warmest person either." Even on television-where his confidence and lucidity come across best-Giscard cannot shake what many see as a handicap-a quasi-aristocratic background, suggested by the "d'Estaing" suffix borrowed from an extinct noble family. "Two centuries after the revolution, the French still don't like aristocrats," says a Paris banker...
...plants that reach markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan are smuggled across the Rio Grande River from Mexico, where peasants have stripped vast areas of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosi states almost bare of fragile and beautiful species. As a result, nearly 30 kinds are considered virtually extinct in Mexico, and 250 more are imperiled. Some choice species that sell for a few dollars each south of the border may fetch $50 or $60 at a Los Angeles nursery. Texas has no state law prohibiting the harvesting of cacti. While national preserves like the huge...