Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thus are capable of extraordinary feats of both creativity and destructiveness. Their sheer numbers alone would have guaranteed that we would have had unusual fashions in music and art, abnormally high crime rates, and new social and religious movements. The war in Vietnam and race relations provided a special focus for many of those energies and imbued more of them with a political cast than might otherwise have been the case...
Crimson diver Steve Schramm provided the crowd of 200 with a special early season performance by setting a pool record in the one meter diving event, scoring 319.35 points in six plunges. Mike Toal, with 301.80 points, had previously owned the record...
During the 1970s, political elites converted the rage of the 1960s into settled convictions and organizational forms. Two convictions were of special importance: the United States shall abandon an interventionist role in world affairs and retard the rate of domestic economic growth. Military power should be renounced and industrial expansion denounced. It is not hard to sympathize with such concerns: ravaged villages in Vietnam and foul air over Los Angeles are not pretty sights or monuments to moral progress...
Modern astrophysics now deciphers a more vibrant, evolving universe--one in which life seems to be nothing more than a natural consequence of the evolution of matter. Soberingly though, our planetary system apparently palys no special role in this vast array of material coagulations. Magnificent mediocrity, so it seems, is the catchword describing our condition on the rock called Earth...