Word: extinctionism
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Lee's only chance of saving himself from political extinction in his fight with the Barisan Socialists is to maneuver Singapore into the federation as soon as possible. Under the terms he proposes, the island would maintain a certain measure of autonomy by controlling its own labor and education...
Since Australia was settled 180 years ago, the mainstay of its economy has always been British purchases of Australian wheat and wool. Now, with Britain dickering for membership in the Common Market and the whole system of Commonwealth tariff preferences threatened with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other...
Prism & Wonderland. One of five curates at St. Stephen's, Priest-Publisher Beaumont-thanks to an "understanding" vicar-has no duties except on Sunday, a privilege shared by some Anglican "worker priests" in British industrial cities who labor weekdays in factories, preach and worship on Sunday in mission chapels...
While the FCC is trying to irrigate American culture in the "wasteland" of television, the Post Office is threatening to kill it off where it has long flourished, in the little magazines. If the Senate approves the general postal rate increase urged by Postmaster General J. Edward Day--the House...
The Saints have been cultivating souls in Britain for more than a century. In 1837 Mormon Founder Joseph Smith dispatched seven missionaries to England-a venture that possibly saved the church from extinction. Working with the zeal of early Christians, the Mormons made 77,000 converts in two decades, sent...