Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forest rangers estimate that about 40 separate teams of treenapers are operating a $15 million-a-year black market in Colorado's renowned aspens. After the winter's last snowfall, but while the aspens are still dormant, the bandits uproot them and sell them to nurseries and landscapers for between $10 and $15 apiece, or door to door for up to $45. An industrious team can harvest as many as 30,000 saplings in a season. Who wants them? Says Forest Service Spokesman Hank Deutsch: "I guess a clump of aspen is a desirable attraction for people's yards...
When the College revived the long-dormant committee last spring to hear cases stemming from South Africa-related protests, house committees once again refused to send delegates, and only five of 18 defendents appeared at their own hearings...
...Radcliffe women continued to ruin their heels on the Lamont stairs while the issue lay dormant for more than a year...
Critics have continually charged that the CRR is not representative of the student body and that it can be used to prosecute students for their political beliefs. After laying dormant for 10 years, the CRR reconvened last spring to decide the cases of 18 students involved in two anti-apartheid protests...
Meanwhile, on an island southwest of Anchorage, the 4,025-ft. Mount ( Augustine volcano erupted for the second time, after being dormant since 1976. University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone explained that the Mount Augustine eruptions, which shot ash eight miles into the sky, are loosely related to the earthquakes in that both are caused by the same "gross global mechanism": the glacial movement of the Pacific tectonic plate, which is inching north below California and diving under southern Alaska...