Word: furthers
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The Bush Administration is ready to test growing Soviet openness further. Last month Washington proposed a START verification package to be negotiated and partly carried out even before a treaty is completed. The initiative suggests measures to count warheads on missiles, tag weapons at manufacturing plants and ban such impediments...
While fond of his cat, British biologist Peter Churcher looked askance at its practice of dragging small mammals and birds into his Bedfordshire house and devouring them under the kitchen table "to the sound of crunching bones." One of Churcher's associates, John Lawton, a professor of community ecology at...
Delving further into the sparrow toll, which accounted for 16% of the total feline catch, the scientists concluded that from a third to a half of all sparrow deaths were attributable to cats. Extrapolating these figures, they estimated that cats kill at least 20 million birds a year in Britain...
Now a valuable and timely exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art demonstrates just how much further Japan's children of the postwar "economic miracle" have gone in breaking the old rules. "Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties" affords American audiences an overdue opportunity to examine some...
If a recession does occur, it may well be triggered by a sharp erosion in consumer confidence. Americans are saddled with hefty debt loads and could easily become jittery if the economy weakens. Says Doris Drury, president of the Center for Business and Economic Forecasting in Denver: "I'm leery...