Word: withers
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...urgency, conservationists say, is the fact that the scarlet ibis is not an endangered species; it's just endangered on the island of Trinidad. When the Venezuelan colony abandons Trinidad, a smaller flock resident on the island, which needs the interlopers to keep their gene pool deep, will wither, says Molly Gaskin, president of the Point-a-Pierre wild fowl trust where she oversees a breeding and reintroduction program for scarlet ibis. "We don't have an activism-oriented population; we'll need a catastrophe before that happens," Gaskin said. Oil and gas expansion, she said, is for short-term...
...environment where academics takes center stage, thesis writing and response papers can sometimes become the be-all and end-all of Harvard life. Relationships that could flourish in more favorable climates have the tendency to wither and die in the harsh Cambridge cold unless couples share plenty of quality time in the stacks—working together. On problem sets...
Empires, as they say, are fragile human creations that wither in the face of inevitability. The treacherous deceit of invincibility, which allows said empires a brief illusion of immortality, only leads to ruin when weaknesses in an empire become palpable pillars of harsh reality...
...best students with the most committed parents will be skimmed off by the best schools. That's why it's important to have clear standards, accountability and testing, so that all parents can make informed choices. The tuition money must follow the pupils, so that schools that fail will wither away and, unless politicians or old-line bureaucrats get involved, have to shut down...
...also become clear that there were larger forces at work against him. George Romney was a member of the party's liberal wing; he had withheld his support from Barry Goldwater in 1964 over civil rights. But by 1968 that strain of progressive Republicanism was starting to wither. Richard Nixon's triumph would be called a realignment, a no-looking-back turn to the right for the Republicans...