Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like animals who graze their savannas to stubble and humans who fill their cities to bursting, ads may simply exhaust the very resource that keeps them alive. That resource, in this case, is the goodwill of consumers. As any endangered animal can attest, what follows is extinction. For the dodo, that's a tragedy. For the banana sticker, it would be another thing entirely...
...News Rating: [Three Khomeinis] Crisis in the White House is a little vague--there could be a war, a terrorist, or somebody may have forgotten to take Buddy for a walk. But the tight White House shot effectively evokes tension; ABC News' theme music--do do dodo--feels a little tired. Paging Danny Elfman...
...blew a unique opportunity in your report on the electric car [BUSINESS, Dec. 15] to expose it for what it really is--a dodo: an extinct, flightless bird whose future exists only in the minds of the bureaucrats and wealthy hobbyists. Real people can't afford it. DENNIS KELLY Costa Mesa, Calif...
...discovered beings millions of years more advanced than us? We may be no more than raw material, food or vermin standing in the way of their exploiting our resources. Why should we expect them to be benign and kinder to us than we were to the now extinct dodo? Perhaps the vast distances of space and the limits of relativity are a blessing. We might be better advised to listen more and broadcast less. RICHARD MARSHALL Tongaat, South Africa...
...under Restic, but with its victory over Yale it also marked the first time the Crimson had ever defeated the Elis with a Georgian in the White House. Harvard finished 3-4 Ivy, 3-6 overall, and it seemed like the Multi-Flex was going the way of the dodo...