Word: extinctionism
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The new Cabinet is expected to increase subsidies to industry and agriculture, arguing that otherwise too many Russians would be thrown out of work. Last week the 10-member Russian Security Council, the main executive decision-making body, approved funding for a nuclear-powered submarine, a heavy-missile transporter and...
One advantage Hosokawa has as he attacks the entrenched interests, however, is the sudden extinction of the zoku, the clubs of L.D.P. legislators who shielded specific ministries in return for political favors -- a new road here, a juicy contract there. With the L.D.P. out of power, the zoku ceased to...
( Trained by TV to be literal-minded and by the zeitgeist to be a bit cynical, today's younger generation began driving the traditional musical toward extinction more than two decades ago. The genre's zenith came, not coincidentally, at the last moment of baby boomers' cultural powerlessness, during the...
Measuring only 60 meters across, the Tunguska asteroid pales in size compared to the one kilometer asteroids which could cause a global climate change, or the 10 kilometer mass to which most scientists attribute the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Some fundamentals have not been abandoned. While targeted to a broader but still affluent readership, much of the advertising remains the same. One can still indulge in checkbook liberalism, save indigenous peoples on the brink of extinction, help educate innercity children, purchase personalized cartouches and locate points of departure for...