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Word: materiallize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diversity is the raw material of earth's wealth, but nature's true creativity lies in the relationships that link various creatures. The coral in a reef or the orchid in a rain forest is part of an ecosystem, a fragile, often delicately balanced conglomeration of supports, checks and balances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Biodiversity The Death of Birth | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

The story brings together a gifted, high-minded screenwriter and a no- talent hustler with feckless charm and terminal greed. Guess which comes out on top? The rest of the plot is equally unsurprising: the screenwriter's sanctimonious wife, a publishing executive, abandons all her principles in pursuit of material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Media Mates EMERALD CITY | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

While house officials were all provided with detailed breakdowns of how their house fared in the survey, that material has not been released to students. And the information provided thus far about freshman advising was restricted. Even though the administration has argued that it does not want to release information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Keeping Promises | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

This upsurge in openness has been linked by some critics to cutbacks in the network departments of standards and practices -- the censors who review shows and commercials for offensive (and potentially litigious) material. During the networks' recent wave of cost cutting, the ranks of these watchdogs were drastically reduced: from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Where Are the Censors? | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Yet some relaxation of standards appears to be taking place, partly in response to competition from cable, where explicit material is commonplace. "The networks have seen their share of the audience erode, and I think there is a tacit approval to go a little further," says Robert Singer, an executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Where Are the Censors? | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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