Word: extinct
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That is, divest of stock in companies that contributed to the demise of the long-haired woolly mammoth, a North American mammal which has been extinct for about 100,000 years...
Current exhibits here include "20 Million Years of Human Evolution," "Chemistry of Heredity," and "Extinct and Vanishing Birds of North America." Among the museum's specimens are George Washington's pheasants, whale skeletons, the largest turtle shell ever found, and a 42 foot long Kronosaurus skeleton...
...other spectacular discoveries, Anders' finding was serendipitous. He and his co-workers had simply hoped to elaborate on the Alvarez hypothesis by detecting trace amounts of rare noble gases, like neon and xenon, in the layer of Cretaceous clay deposited during roughly the same period that the dinosaurs became extinct. They were seeking to identify the nature of the object responsible for the impact. Because noble gases collect in carbon particles, the scientists isolated the carbon in Cretaceous sediment taken from Denmark, Spain and New Zealand. To their surprise, all three samples contained carbon that had been deposited...
They were a type of American female now all but extinct, young women who aspired, through beauty and wit, to marry rich, famous and fascinating older men. Each got her wish. After a false start with a Hollywood agent, Gloria Vanderbilt made a better (although also temporary) match with Leopold Stokowski. Carol Marcus married William Saroyan and Oona O'Neill discovered lifelong romance with Charlie Chaplin. As this novelistic account makes clear, the three women were as interesting as the men they married. Aram Saroyan, son of the ill-fated Saroyan-Marcus marriage, takes them from their schoolgirl days...
There were, here and there, a few consolations for the Chancellor. One of his coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party, which only three months ago seemed in danger of becoming extinct, continued its comeback by winning 6% of the votes. The anti-Establishment Greens, meanwhile, dropped to only 4.6%, just short of the 5% minimum required to gain a seat in the state parliament...