Word: eiderly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow-motion rhythms of Arctic life, a crop of simple lichen may take 100 years to grow to maturity?a few inches high. Arctic char, a staple Eskimo food, keeps on growing for 18 years. Migratory birds?lesser Canada geese, eider ducks, American pintails, whistling swans, Brant geese?must time their breeding to the day. If winter is unusually long, a whole species may achieve zero population growth because it lacks time to hatch and rear its young before the ice begins to return in late August...
...junta has also stressed the need for free elections. But this will hardly happen soon. The generals' dilemma, like that of the government they ousted, is that one of the two most powerful groups in the country remains the Peronistas, who still agitate for the return of El Eider from exile in Madrid. The military may be afraid to risk holding elections until after the death of the ailing 74-year-old Peron...