Word: destroyed
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Even when restorationists have some notion of how to begin, they face a daunting enterprise. "You can destroy a prairie in two hours," observes Robert Betz, a Northeastern Illinois University biology professor. "But to rebuild it might take half a century or more." Essential to the task is identifying the dynamic process that shaped each ecosystem and, if need be, putting it back into play. Prairies and bur oak woodlands, for instance, were both created by fire. Without fire, their bright flowers and luxuriant grasses are shaded out by invading brush. Where in centuries past roving bands of Plains Indians...
...lessons to take hold, though, we first have to admit that we made the mistakes. The people of the former Soviet Republics, for instance, will only cease their ethnic fighting once they realize that their long-standing intolerance is pointless. Otherwise, they will continue to fight until they destroy each other...
NUCLEAR REDUCTIONS, however, should not be pushed too far, and the United States must retain some missiles despite the temptation to keep cutting. The Soviet Union will still have enough nuclear missiles to destroy the U.S. after this round of reductions, as will China...
Speaking for much of the local community, Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf insists fast food restaurants would destroy the sanctity and unique character of Harvard Square. The presence of high-profit fast food chains in the Square would drive up rents and, she argues, force the smaller, family-owned restaurants and stores out of business...
...appeared unannounced in Spain, wearing loincloths, their faces and bodies painted. The invaders peacefully entered the shrine of the nation's patron saint at Santiago de Compostela. They left flowers and other offerings and a message to ask "forgiveness for those who used his name to conquer, murder and destroy peoples...