Word: following
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Development is dangerous, contends Frampton, because the parks are part of ecological systems extending beyond set boundaries. Animals, Frampton suggests, do not follow dotted lines. "We don't object to logging on the edge of the parks just because we love trees," he says. "We object because it changes the natural conditions within the park...
...border as early as next year, some of the restless insects may be turned into informants for the scientists who are plotting against them. The aerospace company Martin Marietta has designed a solar-powered microchip transmitter that can be glued snugly onto a bee's back, enabling entomologists to follow the swarm's movements and observe the bees' mating and foraging habits. The transmitter emits an infrared signal that can be detected up to a mile away. The company is still testing the tiny bee tracer, which it hopes to sell to the Agriculture Department and other researchers...
Trade was the hottest issue in the early primaries, and here in one sentence are three seemingly contradictory Democratic proposals. Follow the bouncing ball from "more trade" (Dukakis) to "fair trade" (Richard Gephardt) to halting the export of "American jobs" (Jackson...
Whether or not the conference succeeded in making Gorbachev's modernization plans "irreversible" -- his stated goal -- there was little doubt that he dominated the event. The Soviet leader delivered three addresses, including a 3 1/2-hr. keynote speech and an impassioned follow-up talk starkly warning that socialism "will die unless we reform the political system." He also delivered the meeting's closing address, declaring that the conference had opened the way to "a democratic image of socialism...
...been on a farm all of once in my life. And for some reason, I always remember how one sheep would head in one direction, and the others would follow. Eventually, following the leader led many of the animals to their deaths...