Word: hybridize
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...quest for a way of transforming base metals into gold. In fact, the farmers are pursuing an equally elusive but more modern goal: alternative methods of feeding the earth's billions without excess use of fertilizers and pesticides, waste of coal and oil, or reliance on the new hybrid grain crops, which despite their high yield are often vulnerable to disease...
...Ways and Means adopted a bill postponing the tariff hike for 90 days. Then they linked the measure with a boost in the national debt ceiling that the Administration had sought in order to finance its ballooning deficit (see box). The Democrats reasoned that Ford could not veto the hybrid bill if he wanted the debt ceiling raised...
...production; this time, he thinks, for good, not only because of exponential population growth, but because "rising affluence is emerging as a major claimant of world resources." We have a food shortage today not only because population growth has eaten away the gains from the Green Revolution Third World hybrid seed program, but because rich countries are upgrading their diets. Each year at least eight million tons of grain--enough to feed thirty five million people well--are diverted from human to animal mouths to provide more meat for the rich...
...Again we observed the mixed hair textures and skin colors. Some dark brown Cubans had natural yellow brown hair. A few very dark people had reddish hair. We saw some swimmers who looked Asian but spoke Spanish and were Cubans. Cubans are a mixture of races and cultures--a hybrid of people...
...five years they've lived together, and it's hard to understand why the issue comes to a head now, when one is so self-absorbed, and the other so frightened of dealing with people (most of Jake's sexuality, we discover, is wrapped up in his hybrid maize experiments). There's a sense of urgency lacking in their confrontation that the mystery about the missing Julia doesn't provide...