Word: extinctionism
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Specifically, Reagan called for an end to two South African policies: 1) the forced relocation of several million of the country's 23 million blacks, most of them to remote, impoverished "homelands," and 2) the detention without trial of black leaders. The practices, said the President, "can comfort only...
Parts of the scheme had been leaked in advance, and everyone assumed it was only an opening gambit. Even so, the scope of President Reagan's budget-cutting proposal was little short of staggering. As presented to the Cabinet last week, it would freeze dozens of politically popular spending...
As conceived by Beckett, Endgame is a verbal battle between men on the verge of extinction. His stage directions call for a bare interior, grey light, and two small windows. The only furniture is an armchair and two garbage cans. In the armchair sits the blind Hamm who spends all...
Drought will always come to Ethiopia. But if the country can reach a level of development where food production exceeds population growth, the threat of extinction will not be to Ethiopia but to famine itself.
Extinction also awaits the pound note (current worth: $1.25). First issued in 1797, it is being replaced by a thick metal-alloy coin. Like the Susan B. Anthony dollar in the U.S., the heavy coin has been unpopular. But since the useful life of a paper pound is ten months...