Word: extinctionism
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By realism, he means in most cases the maxims of America's Dwight Eisenhower: The Soviet Union is an aggressor power whose arms buildup we must match dollar for dollar or face extinction; people will only work if a monetary incentive exists; the realm of international relations must be dominated...
Jealousy over a third person was cited in nearly half the violent blowups. Most of the rest grew out of arguments over sex or drinking. Yet experts wonder why college students seem so unable to settle these disagreements without black eyes and broken noses. Married couples fight, but it is...
Hoping to prevent the condor's "rapidly approaching extinction," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Audubon Society presented the state of California with a radical proposal. Under its three-year plan, 21 condors would be trapped, nine to be kept for breeding, twelve to be tagged...
At the Sierra Club and among other environmentalist groups, feathers are flying over even that much meddling in condor affairs. Some are threatening legal action to protect the big birds from their protectors. Says David Phillips, spokesman for the San Francisco-based Friends of the Earth: "Human interference has already...
The first mammals lived almost 200 million years ago, but mammals did not proliferate until the extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.