Word: tree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the bill passed, social committee Co-Chair Tree F. Loong' 93 argued that Beys may be inappropriately using the council's name for personal profit...
When times get tough, the questions facing environmentalists get even tougher. And these days, economic anxieties and shifting political winds are threatening to produce a green-out effect that could make tree huggers feel as endangered as the California condor. Epochal events such as the gulf war and the collapse of the Soviet Union have pushed most domestic ecological concerns off the front pages. The recession has prompted many people to question the costs of environmentalism and made it harder for preservation groups to raise money and boost membership. In the presidential campaign, saving the planet has become an orphaned...
...worst of all, starts screeching as early as 4 a.m. For sheer irritation, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons and possums are no match for the more than 150 wild peacocks that infest this otherwise tranquil, posh Southern California community. The flock -- often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree -- descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
...subtle neurological differences between the sexes both in the brain's structure and in its functioning. In addition, another generation of parents discovered that, despite their best efforts to give baseballs to their daughters and sewing kits to their sons, girls still flocked to dollhouses while boys clambered into tree forts. Perhaps nature is more important than nurture after...
...necessary. Considerable good comes from personal contact between heads of state. But travel for travel's sake, the current malady, is a waste and a danger. We still wonder if Nikita Khrushchev's sizing up of John Kennedy, whose back was throbbing from an injury sustained while planting a tree in Canada, inspired the Soviet leader to send missiles to Cuba...