Word: alder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michaelson added that the posters displayed "either ignorance of what an alder does or an attempt to mislead the Yale community into thinking that she will have influence in areas in which an alder has no authority...
Farther from the epicenter, in hummocky fields of loose volcanic ash and fine pumice pebbles, willows, red alder and an occasional Douglas fir have taken root near small ponds. At the waters' edge, Pacific tree frogs and salamanders now flourish. Large bodies of water like Spirit Lake, which was filled with organic debris and robbed of its oxygen by accompanying bacteria during the eruption, have made even more rapid recoveries. Algae, zooplankton and freshwater crustaceans have all recolonized the lake, prompting authorities from the state department of game to push for the restocking of such game fish as rainbow...
...briefing by scientists who have flocked to study what the U.S. Geological Survey has called a "world-class natural event." By last week, waters of the stream-fed fjord, renamed Russell Lake, had risen more than 62 ft., and were still climbing, covering the beaches and then the steep, alder-lined banks...
...warning letter to the parents of all the eighth-grade students in the state: "Your son or daughter," it declares, "should be expected to enroll in an English class every semester of every year and most students should be taking a math class every semester." U.C. Administrator Henry Alder stresses that low performance in high school could prove hazardous to college aspirations. Reason: by the fall of 1984 the state's 19 colleges and nine universities plan to toughen entrance requirements. The most dramatic new demands will occur at the state college level, where admissions will require 15 units...