Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soft spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style seemed to me a groping and elemental attempt to approximate the complexity of envisioned phenomena and it surprised me to have it called luxuriant and self-indulgent; self...
...other senators voting to sustain the raise were Democrats Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 (D-Mass.), Spark Matsunaga (D-Hawaii), Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska...
With the election and its rhetoric fading into history, conservatives and liberals on both the Charles and the Potomac say Bush will be hard pressed to sustain current economic growth while staying off inflation and recession...
...food. Living trees are being chopped down for fuel, grasslands overgrazed by livestock, and croplands overplowed by desperate farmers. Horrifying images of starvation in northeastern Africa have captured world attention in the past decade. In India, according to government reports, 37% of the people cannot buy enough food to sustain themselves. Warned Shri B.B. Vohra, vice chairman of the Himachal Pradesh state land-use board in northern India: "We may be well on the way to producing a subhuman kind of race where people do not have enough energy to deal with their problems...
...enforced, some lakes and aquifers will be tainted by poisons that have already been released. Even if global population growth could somehow be cut in half, there would still be more than 45 million new mouths to feed next year, putting further strain on a planet whose capacity to sustain life is already under stress...