Word: extinctionism
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Postal rates, moreover, have risen and are still rising so rapidly that many users will soon be priced out of the market. Major voices in America's free press, among the nearly 10,000 magazines and hundreds of mail-delivered newspapers, are threatened with extinction. Two questions must now...
Pterosaurs-or pterodactyls, as they are often called-lived at the height of the age of dinosaurs. Equipped with batlike, leathery wings, long, powerful necks and pelican-like jaws, they soared across the skies for millions of years until their mysterious extinction about 60 million years ago. Although many different...
When mathematicians speak of the "elegance" of a proof, they do not mean decorative grace notes; they mean the kind of succinct, one-pointed blow that undercuts one's expectations of complexity. In that sense, what Oka calls "these utilitarian wrappings, these crystallizations of everyday wisdom" are elegant indeed...
The journalist (played by a grimly floundering Jon Voight) mounts a one-man crusade to avenge that death. But after allowing himself to be beaten up, employed by Israeli intelligence, threatened with quick extinction by murderous closet Nazis, and finally pushed under the wheels of an oncoming train, it becomes...
Like mammoth prehistoric birds, Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines face a threat of extinction because of changing conditions, notably a fourfold rise in fuel prices and a deep slump in international air travel. Having failed in an attempt to wangle Government subsidies to keep them aloft, the...