Word: blight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lots of sexual innuendoes," she says. "Do you appreciate those as sexual harassment?" she asks, answering that she doesn't think they are. "Or do you appreciate them as people saying something because they don't know what else to say?" The awkwardness that marks casual conversations may also blight the tenure process, Klein fears. "Women that are as highly evaluated (as men) have to be exceptional. I don't see a recognition that having role models is an important part of an intellectual environment." And there are other pressures Klein says she creates for herself: "I feel strong incentives...
...There will also be other environmental nightmares. As man invades their wild habitats and pollutants rain down on them, 500,000 to 2 million species of plants and animals may die off in the next two decades. Rare plants needed to create new blight-and pest-resistant hybrids will vanish. Paradoxically, some environmental problems may be the consequence of the best of intentions. As farmers try to squeeze more food out of their fields by irrigation, the soil's salinity will increase, thus impairing its ability to sustain crops. Less predictable, but no less frightening: a possible global heating...
Even now, more than 60 years after its discovery, the blight annually kills 400,000 trees in the U.S. Cutting and removal-the only sure way of stopping the spread of the fungus, which is borne chiefly by bark beetles from tree to tree-costs $100 million a year, to say nothing of the aesthetic price. In many Northern cities, once shaded thoroughfares are treeless and barren. In Milwaukee, where more than 100,000 elms flourished in 1956, barely one-fifth still stand. In Champaign-Urbana, Ill., there were 14,000 elms at the end of World...
...battle just as stiff may be brewing in Cambridgeport, where the Community Development Department is currently surveying all properties to come up with a plan for growth. One neighborhood faction is for development at any cost. "The blight of the Simplex site is encroaching on our homes," James Caragianes says. Another group also wants to see the site used, but preferably by industry. East Cambridge, where massive infusions of federal money have increased incentives for development, is the best example of successful planning in Cambridge, Vickery says...
Candidates who try to avoid issues are an ancient blight on the American political landscape; but only recently have they perfected the sleight-of-hand by which silence becomes an unbeatable advantage. In 1976 Jimmy Carter stepped into a closed railroad car, and rode it straight to the White House; no one caught a glimpse of the man anywhere along the way. Other candidates are trying to take that same ride today...