Word: floras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full-day conference--open to the general public--will offer strategy sessions and workshops aimed at organizing a grass-roots movement which could forestall the referendum item on the 1982 state ballot. Flora Haas, a journalist and an adviser to the new coalition, said this week...
...takes a cactus-naper 15 min. to uproot a plant that may have taken more than a century to develop. And the frail root systems of most big cacti seldom survive the shock of transplanting. Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that the plants are vital to the survival of many animals...
...gist of that is not accurate," Pipes, a Soviet historian, said. Flora Lewis, who wrote the column, could not be reached for comment...
...brief periods on single-entry visas. Forehandedly, after months of planning, the New York Times was able to get accreditation for John Darnton, now the only U.S. correspondent resident in Warsaw. (Even so, when the trouble broke out in late August, the Times's former chief European correspondent, Flora Lewis, was in Majorca and had to begin her new foreign affairs column: "There is a special poignancy in hearing the news from Poland on this quiet, sun-soothed Spanish island...
...interesting that one of the leading figures in the recent escape of the six Americans from Iran [Feb. 11] is Canada's Secretary for External Affairs, Flora MacDonald. That is the same name as that Highland Scot who assisted Bonnie Prince Charlie in his escape from the clutches of the English after his aborted rebellion...