Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken from the wild. "We have to convert interest in birds into backing for conservation," says Arnold Brown of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. "It's one thing to admire a loon and another to realize that it's our oldest bird, 70 million years old, and in trouble from acid rain...
...intolerable rural unemployment to Mexico and Central America. We fear the consequences of forcing South Africa to reform its system or insisting that Brazil or Argentina pay their debts on time. As the years pass, more and more issues will arise that require the collective efforts of many nations--acid rain, the destruction of the ozone layer, the traffic in drugs, and many more. Such problems will create increasing pressure for cooperative rather than unilateral decisions...
...today nearly everyone understands it as referring to distortions of the truth. That did not sway the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It ruled 5 to 3 that the Justice Department could invoke a World War II-era law to label as "political propaganda" three Canadian documentaries on acid rain and nuclear war, including a 1983 Academy Award winner. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens pointed out that the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1942 defined propaganda in its broader sense, without designating it as true or false. Therefore, he said, the Government's use of the term...
...made and reported his doubts to NYU anthropology professor Clifford Jolly. Over the next few months, Jolly and Macris kept notes on laboratory activites, recorded conversations with Buettner-Janusch, photographed materials and secretly took samples that, when analyzed by the Drug Enforcement Agency, proved to be methaqualone and lysergic acid diethylamide, both illegal...
...know is I think Cliff Jolly is a shit. He, or someone destroyed a lot of things out of sheer jealousy. I mean, someone poured acid on the slides of lemur chromosome studies that BJ had done," says Spuhler...