Word: longing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to eke out a living covet the vast habitats set aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind eye to poaching. Revenues from tourism and safaris have yet to improve the lot of the African people enough to win them over to wildlife management...
Such a prospect truly alarms Richard Leakey, the world-famous paleontologist who heads Kenya's wildlife department. Says he:"The elephant has been around a long time and has given such pleasure to so many and has the potential to give such pleasure to so many more. Should we allow it, through our inaction, greed and perhaps cowardice, to become an exotic on this continent? If not, how do we prevent...
QUEEN OF HEARTS. On a next-to-nothing budget, this criminally pleasurable panorama depicts a teeming gallery of Italians in postwar London. Funny, ambitious and a mite too long, Queen of Hearts laces pearls on a shoestring...
Ironically, aerospace experts said, both sides in the dispute could use a breathing spell. The company needs to perform plant maintenance and restock parts for the assembly lines, and the machinists want to relax after a long stint of forced overtime -- as much as 200 hours a quarter in many cases...
...strike as long as the last one, which went on for 45 days in 1977, could be devastating to all sides. Boeing is far and away the largest employer in both the Seattle area (where it has 106,000 workers) and the state (144,725) and spends as much as $1 billion a year on supplies in the region. A prolonged stoppage would cost thousands of jobs in other areas, ranging from parts manufacturers to restaurants. Increased unemployment would have a heavy impact on the state government, which has no income tax and is heavily dependent on sales-tax revenue...