Word: extinctions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Yorker, for which he drew 16 covers; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Reilly mocked the foibles of anxious yuppies and overwrought parents in edgy yet goofy pieces. In one, a woman standing with her young son near a museum's dinosaur skeleton warns him, "They got extinct because they didn't listen to their mommies...
...Code of Honor, which sets group-wide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Ratan Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash of business failures in India that followed reform: "He survived the bloodbath. Those who made no changes became extinct...
...according to Johnson, who founded the organization, CNNY has its own bills to pay, and the proceeds from the Ivy League polo match are set aside for the organization itself.That was the plan anyway, when Johnson started the Ivy Cup in collaboration with Drugge, the captain of the now-extinct undergraduate Crimson polo team. So far, it hasn’t worked. Every year, CNNY has poured between $80,000 and $100,000 into the polo match, and as Johnson says, “there weren’t really any proceeds.” He has high hopes...
...long-standing tradition of small-boat racing would likely go extinct as well, as the NCAA women’s championship features just three races—a first varsity eight, a second varsity eight, and a varsity four event...
...Darwin noted, the survival of each species depends on how well it fits into changing environments. We know that ecosystems are changing on a global scale. As documented by the fossil record, some species in the past thrived under new conditions, while others, ill adapted to change, went extinct. Who will be the winners in the hot, deforested, carbon dioxide-- enveloped world of the future? It won't necessarily...