Word: leveler
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Endangered Species. A new Cabinet level committee was created to balance economic factors against environmental concerns when dams and other projects conflict with the Endangered Species Act, which protects birds, fish and animals that are threatened with extinction. Congress directed the agency to decide within four months whether work can proceed on the $120 million Tellico dam in Tennessee, despite its threat to survival of the three-inch snail darter...
...siding with the Egyptians. "They are getting all of Sinai," Dayan reportedly grumbled to Carter. "You would think they might at least say thank you." But he also seemed genuinely convinced that the peace talks should be upgraded to the heads-of-state level...
...that," said one back-room Liberal pol. "It was a personal defeat for Trudeau." Canadians are hopping mad at the state of their economy after ten years of his party's rule. Inflation is running at a rate of 8.6% annually; unemployment, at 8.5%, is at the highest level since 1940; and the value of the Canadian dollar has plummeted from $1.03 U.S. to a spindly 840 in the past 23 months. The federal government is running a deficit that is expected to reach at least $11.8 billion this year, and Canadians, like many Americans, are worried about...
That pointed little joke reflects the growing alarm in Moscow about China's current global diplomatic offensive, which the Kremlin regards as part of a Peking plan for world domination. In the past three months the decibel level of Moscow's attacks on China has risen to ear-splitting volume, all but drowning out the Soviet press's ritual critiques of Western warmongering and imperialism...
Even the hills which break up the mostly flat course between the third and fourth miles aided the Crimson. Starting off ahead of the competition, the Harvard harriers had put more distance between themselves and their pursuers by the time they all reached level ground. "We just cruised," Meyer said...