Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gulf between Cambridge and New Bedford is wide, and Democrats like David Alves are not sure Harshbarger can bridge...
...past four decades, a mere handful of news moments have seemed momentous enough to leave a permanent imprint on the public consciousness. President Kennedy's assassination, the moon landing and the night war broke out in the Gulf were so widely and instantly disseminated that nearly all who witnessed them can tell you where they were and what they were doing at the time. Now, it seems the death of Princess Diana has been somberly added to this sublime list of events...
...Steve Lynn, a hard-driving entrepreneur who operates nine burrito restaurants and still wears denim overalls to work. "My mother said, 'I hope you have a child just like you. It's the only way you'll know how much it pains me, what you're doing.' But the gulf between me and my mother was greater, because the change from the '50s to the '60s was greater. I mean, what could you tell your mother about Berkeley? Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll--she didn't have a clue, except it wasn't kosher. I know what's going...
...what has amplified the destructive power of modern fishing more than anything else is its gargantuan scale. Trawling for pollock in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska, for example, are computerized ships as large as football fields. Their nets--wide enough to swallow a dozen Boeing 747s--can gather up 130 tons of fish in a single sweep. Along with pollock and other groundfish, these nets indiscriminately draw in the creatures that swim or crawl alongside, including halibut, Pacific herring, Pacific salmon and king crab. In similar fashion, so-called longlines--which stretch for tens of miles...
What happens to the dead and dying animals that constitute this so-called by-catch? Most are simply dumped overboard, either because they are unwanted or because fishery regulations require it. In 1993, for example, shrimp trawlers in the Gulf of Mexico caught and threw away an estimated 34 million red snappers, including many juveniles. By contrast, the annual catch of red snapper from the Gulf averages only around 3 million fish. Indeed, so many snappers are being scooped up as by-catch that the productivity of the fishery has been compromised. Fortunately, there is a solution. Shrimp nets...