Word: extinctionism
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The Committee for the Restoration of the Woolly Mammoth certainly has nothing against humor. Even the most serious of causes can be funny, and the Committee took no offense at the satire implicit in the SASC's "Hey, hey, ho, ho, blood on your portfolio" antics. We admit that some...
ONE COULD WELCOME the new restrictions because they would cause the extinction of the party animal. Natural selection would replace this predator with the conversationalist, the type that goes to parties to discuss Sartre, or demonstrate some tricks he learned with MacPaint. Harvard parties would become more cerebral, more sophisticated...
In the world of Frederic Cassidy, ABC is anything but simple. Cassidy, 77, demonstrated that last week when Belknap/Harvard University Press published the first volume (A-C) of his unique Dictionary of American Regional English, its 1,056 pages bulging with bits of vernacular from A, as in a-coming...
Under a provision of the trade laws that allows industries facing extinction to apply for relief from foreign competition, the U.S. International Trade Commission recommended last June that the Administration cut the foreigners' share of the U.S. shoe market from 71% to 68%. President Reagan's refusal to do so...
Sniffing a connection, Rampino and a Goddard colleague, Astrophysicist Richard Stothers, among others, proposed an ingenious way that the oscillating journey might trigger bombardments on earth. Whenever the sun passes through the Milky Way plane, they suggested, the swirls of dust it encounters would gravitationally disrupt the Oort cloud, a...