Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...recent years, however, such problems as ozone depletion and deforestation have shown that mankind is threatening the systems that support its economic and social well-being. Americans pay lip service to this reality but tend to revert to old thinking when environmental reform threatens either jobs or life-styles. People thus need to undergo a fundamental shift in perspective, acknowledging their dependence on a healthy biosphere. Seeing earth as a whole erases the illusion that humanity is separate from the natural order. For that reason alone, The Home Planet (Addison-Wesley; $19.95), an elegant compilation of photos taken during American...
...remains strong that the current talks about talks will end and real negotiations begin by early 1991. Yet in the absence of a new constitutional order, De Klerk will have to face the white electorate again in 1994. He may thus feel increasingly pressured by party hard-liners to revert to the ways of Pretoria's repressive past if violence bogs down the process of reconciliation and seriously threatens white security...
...headlines were a little too bold," said Laura J. Ferguson, managing editor of the Gazette. "We wanted something more conservative, so we decided to revert to the old format...
...debate whether jubilation or apprehension is in order. Even before Iraq's mugging of Kuwait, some experts worried that without the superpowers to rein them in, other nations tend to live by the law of the jungle, and hot wars are a condition of nature. Hence Europe could revert to patterns of international behavior that not too long ago made it every bit as dangerous and violent as the Middle East is today...
...interprets as encouraging suicide. Attorneys for the plaintiffs also maintain that satanic incantations are revealed when the music is played backward. Testifying last week, Vance's mother, a born- again Christian, described how her son threw away rock records after attending a Christian camp in 1983, only to revert to former habits. "He couldn't do both at the same time," she said. "He was either true to the God of our church, or he was true to the god Judas Priest...