Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Our civilization rests on the dangerous assumption that man is master of the land and other animals, and lives as if he were totally independent from trivial things like ecosystems and food chains. But the simple truth is that man is an animal--albeit a very complex and highly developed...
The snail darter has thus become the symbol of a much larger question: At what price shall the environment be protected? Opponents of refunding want to make the Endangered Species Act less rigid, especially when a species is being protected at the expense of what they consider the larger public...
Last week speculation also ran to names rarely heard before: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 57, Brazil's brave champion of human rights; Joseph Cordeiro, 60, of Pakistan, who exudes saintly simplicity and concern for the poor; and Poland's Karol Wojtyla, 58, who is a strong leader in a...
...Gerhard Neumaier, president of Buffalo's Ecology and Environment, Inc., participation in the mission was a last desperate attempt to break into a market that for four years had rebuffed him. A specialist in analyzing the environmental ramifications of projects ranging from dams to industrial parks, Neumaier in 1974 founded a Japanese subsidiary and spent $500,000 in a futile search for contracts. Says he: "We wouldn't have stayed all this time if we hadn't been encouraged by government bureaucrats who said, 'Be patient, you'll eventually succeed.' " Fed up with meaningless...
Epps said that although students need to be in an environment where there is significant representation of all races, "House assignments by race is not an acceptable solution."