Word: bequeath
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...traditionally been willing to do anything to protect the environment--anything, that is, that does not involve the slightest inconvenience to themselves. Even after Earth Week is over, it is important to remember that the daily choices we make as consumers and citizens can help or hinder efforts to bequeath a habitable planet to our children...
Triumph in the short run by no means guarantees that the U.S. will be able to bequeath Panama a stable, democratic civilian government. Endara has not even finished naming a full Cabinet, and in other ways he is all too obviously dependent on his American protectors. In fact, Endara suffered from telling, if unintentional, slights. His first television address to the nation was preceded onscreen by a U.S. Defense Department logo. When Americans accepted the surrender of Del Cid, they flew him to the U.S. for trial on drug charges without so much as a by-your-leave...
...council postponed action on a measure that would have partially addressed this problem by asking City Manager Robert W. Healy and the Rent Control Board to draft new regulatory language allowing landlords to bequeath individual units to their surviving heirs...
Nothing else we do will amount to much if we cannot bequeath a habitable planet to our children...
...Maggie Creek. Gold Quarry. Goldstrike. Blue Star. The Rain. The Bootstrap. American Barrick Resources Corp., a Canadian company, recently announced plans to excavate a billion tons of rock to get at 12 million oz. of gold -- worth about $4.4 billion at current prices. In the process, the mine will bequeath to posterity a hole 1,500 ft. deep, 4,000 ft. wide and 7,000 ft. long...