Word: extinctionism
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The slump, plus vigorous competition from suburban shopping centers and discount chains like E.J. Korvette and Great Eastern, has led to the extinction of some older stores in the central city. San Francisco's H. Liebes & Co., a women's specialty shop that opened more than a century...
TEDIUM. The era of massive student dissent is now in its sixth year. Few movements can long sustain such an emotional pitch and tension. This fall, students are tired or frustrated or both; they are aware that some problems cannot be solved overnight. CAMBODIA/KENT STATE. The protests last May unified...
By focussing on a two or three minute incident in a confrontation that lasted at least an hour and a half, your reporter managed to avoid explaining what the demonstration was all about. The SDS wants two things from the D. A. S., both of which we have felt it...
E.D.F. suggests that such discharges may be the chief source of DDT in Southern California waterways, and adds that the pesticide, which may endanger humans, has already caused the near extinction of the brown pelican.
Closed Societies. According to Ardrey, every animal society-including man's-is "a group of unequal beings organized to meet common needs." A successful society will form a power hierarchy in which each individual knows and keeps his place; otherwise, relentless competition would doom to extinction any colony composed...