Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Harvard Head Swimming Coach Ray Essick, director of the National AAU Aquatic Administration helped land the meet for Harvard. "Ray Essick gives us a little bit of a head start since he knows the facility and the program we will put on here," Bernal added...
ALDO LEOPOLD wrote his impassioned plea for a land ethic more than 30 years ago, three years after the holocausts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But little has changed in America, (or anywhere else, for that matter.) Man is still intoxicated with his own technology, and through his creations he feels he must tinker with the forces of nature to accommodate his limitless whims and needs...
...civilization rests on the dangerous assumption that man is master of the land and other animals, and lives as if he were totally independent from trivial things like ecosystems and food chains. But the simple truth is that man is an animal--albeit a very complex and highly developed one--who is, like all other animals, a mere citizen--not master--of the environment...
Americans find barriers still high in the land of the rising...
...Sony TVs to nimble Kawasaki cycles and buy so little in return, the Japanese alone account for 40% of the nation's appalling trade deficit, which this year will rocket to a record $33 billion. In response to repeated American pleas for easier access to markets in the land of Hitachi and Datsun, the Japanese reply reproachfully: "But we are ready and eager to buy your goods. It is your fault for making no effort to sell to us." Last week a group of 100 U.S. businessmen, headed by Texas Instruments Chairman Mark Shepherd and accompanied by Commerce Secretary...