Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major factor in breeding, zoos have discovered, is to provide the animal with surroundings as close to his own native habitat as possible. In the contrived gloom of The Bronx Zoo's "World of Darkness," badgers ramble into burrows and kit foxes scurry over "desert." In the new Milwaukee Zoo, tigers in craggy caves stare across camouflaged moats at antelope. These are no mere frills. "A bird that needs a vertical twig for a particular part of its courtship, or a reptile that requires cyclical temperature change, is more likely to reproduce when the proper ecological furniture is provided...
...backed $250 million federal loan to the ailing company. That saved an estimated 60,000 jobs in the depressed aerospace industry. Before the week was out, lines formed again in Burbank restaurants; banks reported a brisk business in traveler's checks. But in another aerospace center. Seattle, the gloom only deepened when the Nixon Administration refused to distribute surplus food commodities in the city because it already had a food-stamp program in operation. While some of the needy in Seattle marched and picketed, others turned to Neighbors-in-Need, a volunteer organization that distributes free food. Unemployment...
...that they had contributed greatly to "the widening of man's horizons." Pope Paul interrupted an audience to announce the sad news. In Geneva, officials postponed the dedication of a gleaming titanium space monument that had been donated by Russia to the Palais des Nations. There was particular gloom in the U.S. space community, especially among the astronauts. Beyond their sorrow for the dead cosmonauts, they felt that the accident-coming as it did on the eve of the Apollo 15 moon shot-might well diminish public enthusiasm for manned space travel...
There are good grounds for Detroit's gloom. By raising exhaust temperatures, a device called a catalytic converter can burn away carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Trouble is, this step may also increase the output of nitrogen oxides, which no one yet knows how to curb economically. Unless the automakers can develop radical, new technological solutions, they fear that the expense of meeting the federal requirements may add as much as $600 to the cost of each...
...children are allowed to work together, teaching and subtly competing with one another. Older children are sometimes assigned to help younger ones. Each pod's six teachers (one for every 41 kids) are free to cruise from child to child, prodding, checking the finished work, combatting the gloom or gossip that often derails preadolescent concentration...