Word: growing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vitally important to the earth's wellbeing. A key ingredient in photosynthesis-the miraculous process by which green plants grow and produce oxygen-CO2 directly or indirectly sustains all terrestrial life. Now it appears that the gas may carry the potential for trouble as well. Accumulating in the atmosphere at an accelerating rate, carbon dioxide could significantly raise global temperatures by early in the next century and dramatically alter the quality of life. With such a prospect under study, a federal official says: "We have about ten years to come up with an answer...
...Olsen manages to transcend her own personal frustration to empathize with all people whose creative efforts society thwarts. Silences is more than a memoir or a narrow feminist polemic. Though the book did grow out of her own "special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly mute at having to let writing die over and over again in me," Olsen eloquently and passionately documents a spectrum of circumstances, most beyond the control of the writer, that corrupt or destroy his art. (Olsen criticizes the language's invidious bias towards the male...
...likes little-known American works and singles out the less popular symphonies of the major composers. Slatkin's weakness, musicians feel, is his tendency to skim the surface of music and his awkwardness on the podium. Still, he and St. Louis know each other intimately and should grow together...
...first ballot the votes were hopelessly dispersed among a broad scattering of realistic as well as throwaway names. By the second, taken right the lines began to grow clear. No non-Italian figured prominently on the tally sheet that each Cardinal marked as the names were called out. No Italian had anywhere near the necessary 75 votes (two-thirds of the conclave plus one). Nor did any have a discernible lead. But the main competition seemed to be between the principal Curial and pastoral candidates...
...somewhere, choose a town where I could start to school, piece out in his own mind just how we were going to live from then on. It tells most about my father over the next years that I was the only one of those predicaments that ever seemed to grow easier...