Word: cull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equally powerful coalition is opposed to a global ban. Those few southern African countries -- Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa -- that have not been beset by poachers cull their herds to maintain the elephant populations at optimum levels. That culling produces legally traded ivory. Those countries say a ban would punish them for the corruption and inefficiency of other nations. Ivory traders and retailers, of course, also oppose a comprehensive ban, hoping to save an industry with annual revenues estimated at $500 million to $1 billion worldwide. They are joined by the CITES secretariat, a Lausanne- based bureaucracy that monitors...
...simply, Women's Studies is a more or less fixed view about the role of women in society, and courses on women's studies cull the various legitimate fields of economics, history, literature and so forth to find support for that point of view...
...company are blasting and carving out a 1,100-acre open-pit site. When it begins full operation in October, the Carson Hill venture will be the first commercial gold mine to open in the Angels Camp area since 1950. The company's general manager, W.B. Williams, expects to cull only .046 oz. of gold per ton of ore mined. But, says Williams, "if prices go down, we still make a profit...
Many of the faculty are New-York based and Fanger, a noted dance historian and critic who writes for the Boston Herald, says she makes several trips to New York each year to help her cull her 17-member faculty. Lucinda Childs, head of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, David Gordon, head of the Pick Up Company and Remy Charlip are among this year's noted teachers...
...course, Richard Pryor does have the right to cull interesting events from real life, mix in some exaggeration and good old-fashioned melodrama and call it art. And, of course, it would be much more vainglorious and self-glorifying for anything called, say, Down and Out With Richard Pryor, to be more than a made-for-TV movie...