Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swimwear is revealing less, not more, of the skin and using an array of design and construction tricks to camouflage body flaws. Higher necklines and underwire bras help disguise a large bust; ruffles and other upper-body froufrous distract from a small one. Lower-cut legs and flirty little skirts divert attention from big hips and thighs, while high waistlines, belts and stomach-control panels are doing their bit to hide the belly...
Another Nixonesque argument is that economic sanctions would force China to cut itself off from the rest of the world, Yang says, countering that in the modern era, China already has too many ties to other nations to be able to isolate itself...
While the Penan are fighting the local loggers, the tribe's real antagonists are some 2,600 miles away, in Japan. Most of the trees cut in the Malaysian part of Borneo (the rest of the island is controlled by Indonesia and Brunei) are shipped to Japan, where the lumber is most often made into throwaway plywood construction forms used to mold concrete. Nor is the situation in Borneo unusual. Japan's heavy demand for wood has led to the deforestation of vast tracts in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Last April the Japan Tropical Forest Action...
Unfortunately, the Japanese ivory traders delayed too long. Unrelenting poaching has cut Africa's wild elephant population by more than half in the past decade, to an estimated 625,000. In October the 102 nations that subscribe to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species are expected to declare the African elephant endangered, which would make the ivory trade illegal in those countries. Not waiting for a worldwide ban, the U.S. and the E.C. decided last month to stop ivory imports immediately. Japan followed suit with a partial ban that would reduce its ivory imports to a trickle...
Proponents argue that people have always gambled and always will -- so governments might as well cut themselves in on the action. Lotteries painlessly raise billions for worthy causes (education in most states, senior citizens' programs in Pennsylvania). Lottery operators love to quote an 1826 remark by Thomas Jefferson that lotteries are a kind of tax "laid on the willing only." Chon Gutierrez, director of the California lottery, goes so far as to assert, "The lottery is not gambling. It's entertainment." And cheap entertainment at that, says Edward Stanek, commissioner of the Iowa lottery, because ticket buyers "can spend...