Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This, says Stewartt, is really "a mining operation, a one-time extraction of resources." Valley walls too steep to walk on have been scraped to bare earth. Acreage bulldozed for shopping malls looks like this. Until these ravaged uplands reseed themselves -- which on the steepest slopes simply may not happen -- erosion is inevitable, and the most reliable yield, says Forester Morrison in disgust, will be "sustained sediment" in the streams that drain them. We head eastward to a landing field near Mount Rainier National Park...
...would have created a stir if Bush was referring to the entire Hispanic community, and if he showed a desire to offend Hispanics. But he wasn't and he didn't He was making an observation, obviously an awkward one, when he said that those are my grandchildren, who happen to stand out a bit in my predominantly white family because they have dark skin, darker than mine if you must know...
...gathers from the leading Democrats that they really want judges who make policy and make it in a certain direction and I think that's what will happen if Gov. [Michael S.] Dukakis is elected," Bork said. The judge criticized Harvard Law School professors for signing a committee report opposing his nomination which Bork called "quite distorted...
...next step is to have handout leaflets toshow that Harvard is culpable even though theyaren't directly hiring [non-union] workers,"Murphy said. "If the status quo remains, we'll goback to the line with the leaflets. I know[Harvard] doesn't want that to happen...
...would never be the same again. "It just takes time," he says. Time, and a sense that he was not going through this alone. "A couple of years later, my best friend's parents got divorced. Then a lot of other kids' parents got divorced. I guess when it happened to me, it was just starting." When asked about his greatest worry as a child, Josh replied, somewhat absently, "War. It's scary to think what could happen." But at the mention of his parents' divorce, Josh adds, "Now that I think about it, war looks really small compared with...