Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought but still an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. But the flames were dervish-like, capriciously carving jigsaw patterns out of untouched forest, sometimes encircled by heavily burned areas. Blackened stands of lodgepole pine and Douglas fir should gradually become meadows of aspens, wildflowers and grass; life will go on. "From an ecological standpoint, there was no downside," says John Varley, the park's chief of research. "It is not a rebirth because there was not a death...
...self- contradiction. Its authors confirmed that the ecological results of natural burning are good. But the report contended that "in some cases the social and economic effects ((of natural fires)) may be unacceptable." Translation: the main problem with the fires was not what they did to plant and animal life but what they did to the tourist business...
Hamilton epitomized the Democratic anguish. He starred with his morality lectures during the Iran-contra hearings and has continued to be a scold about virtue in public life. He has been oddly silent on Wright, his own leader, while admitting the questions he gets back home in his district are becoming more unsettling and more numerous. "Letting the process run," as he puts it to his constituents, obviously has its limits. We may be close this week...
...want to become an Assistant Secretary," says Chase Untermeyer, director of the office of presidential personnel. Mark Abramson, director of the Center for Excellence in Government, says top jobs are going begging because of "low pay, anxiety over postemployment restrictions and the feeling that high Government service is life in a fishbowl...
...city known for world-class pornography, Hurlbut has carved a swath of reform. An executive-search consultant in his more mundane life, the burly 59- year-old launched a second career as an anti-vice crusader a decade ago. He began by leading a covey of angry citizens in stamping out sex shops in his own blue-collar neighborhood of Aldine. He then expanded the drive, harnessing the muscle of police and prosecutors to close nude bars, massage parlors and so-called modeling studios across a stretch of Harris County. Today, thanks largely to Hurlbut, service roads and strips that...