Word: extinguish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Modern technology has given us the tools to extinguish entire fish populations, and because man is a can-do critter, that's what we're doing. After climbing steadily for the past 50 years, the worldwide catch of seafood has begun to drop. We're fishing out the oceans, at the same time that the need for seafood is soaring. Of the 6 billion of us on the planet, 1 billion rely on fish as their primary source of protein...
...plane pending notification of next of kin, but Arab newspapers have alleged the personnel may have been training in the U.S. "The facts of this case are not as important as the impression that our government is attempting to conceal the facts," the council wrote. "In order to extinguish any rumor of conspiracy in this matter, we ask that you offer full disclosure on the details of this aspect of this tragedy." But the air crash aside, there's nothing unusual about the Pentagon being a little circumspect about the mission of a group of foreign military officers here...
...fire, however, proved easy to contain and extinguish. CFD reported that the fire damaged a set of architectural drawings on a desk. Most of the damage was either smoke- or water-related...
...fire-buffs, living around Boston is heaven. We know about the legendary fire captain who could extinguish a five-story blaze with solely the deck gun on his engine...
...that the Shi'ites were ranked somewhere "between infidels and true Muslims." Khamenei had already sent thousands of Revolutionary 4Guards to stage showy war games along the border. Now, he warned, "I have so far prevented the lighting of a fire in this region which would be hard to extinguish. But all should know that a very great and wide danger is quite near...