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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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To start off, they shortened from two years to just four months the time that it usually takes females to mate, lay eggs and hatch their young. How? By cleverly manipulating water temperatures and light exposures within the blockhouses, so the lobsters were duped into thinking they had passed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lobster Bodega | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

These are difficult questions, and I can't pretend to have an answer to them. However, I react strangely when I hear about the high school All-American hockey player who was just accepted with a 375 verbal SAT score (you get 200 points for signing your name). I don...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

Underlying Taiwan's optimism about the future is the island's burgeoning economic strength. Last year the republic had a 12.8% real growth in gross national product, based largely on a foreign trade of $23.7 billion, greater than that of the mainland. Two-way trade with the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAIWAN: Absorbing the Painful Blow | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

"Traveling is no longer a luxury," says Edward Mayo, professor of travel management at Notre Dame. "It's a need, a right. You've got to get out of the house, get away from the urban centers, and people are going to get away one way or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gas: A Long, Dry Summer? | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

In fairness, Jimmy Carter has had an intellectual grasp of the energy problem since the day he walked into the Oval Office. He rightly declared the moral equivalent of war early in his term to cope with the impending crisis. He got little help from any other segment of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Can't You Do something? | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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