Word: environmentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evolutionary terms, the human species is already adapting to profound changes in the earth's chemical environment. Increases in environmentally induced birth defects, infertility and adult mortality prior to reproductive success reflect natural selection at work...
...also afield. Jersey City promptly gave permission to explore land the municipality had acquired for a potential water supply. The mayor of West Milford (pop. 23,000) declared that jobs created by mining would be good for his town, adding that he trusted the state's department of environmental protection to work out any ecological problems. The department in turn said that it was relying on the oil companies to prevent environmental damage. Declared Bragg: "We know that people are concerned with the environment. So are we." Twenty years ago, most citizens would have been satisfied with such statements...
Fervent evangelicals saw the move as an assault on one of their last bastions: the Bible schools they had established to shield their young from an ungodly environment (most of the schools are predominantly white). Congress forbade the IRS to carry out its plan, but in the eyes of conservative...
He prides himself on being a political maverick in the mold of his hero, the late Senator Wayne Morse. But Democratic Congressman James Weaver, 53, has always kept in step with one part of his southwestern Oregon constituency: the liberal college town of Eugene (pop. 103,500). In three terms...
Randall disagreed with community complaints, noting that the streetlights at Harvard are similar to the mercury vapor lights and have not clashed with the University's historical environment.