Word: mating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, when he was Governor of Georgia, panelists had failed to recognize him on What's My Line?). It also served to position him, more sharply than he had been perceived before, as a liberal. He did so by choosing Minnesota Senator Walter ("Fritz") Mondale as his running mate and by using the themes he struck in his acceptance speech...
...Last week, Carter said he would propose that future conventions recess to allow the presidential nominee about 30 days to decide on a running mate and then reconvene to ratify the choice or allow the Democratic National Committee...
...insect's life cycle is also an asset to its survival. Many insects are completely metamorphic, passing from egg through larval, pupal and sometimes suspended stages before developing into full-fledged adults that can then mate and start the process all over again. This enables them to take advantage of a wide variety of food supplies. Insect fecundity is frightening. Many species lay hundreds or thousands of eggs after each mating. Some pass through their entire life cycles, from egg to adult, in a matter of days or weeks, producing dozens of generations a season. This gives them an enormous...
...Beltsville, Jacobson has identified the sex pheromones of the American cockroach. Oriental fruit fly, Mediterranean fruit fly and southwestern pine tip moth. Synthetic forms of such chemicals could, if spread in large quantities over an insect-infested field, so confuse male insects that they might never find females and mate with them...
STERILIZATION. Since the females of many insect species mate only once in a lifetime, bug birth rates can be reduced by tricking them into mating with males that have been sterilized by exposure to radiation. In the 1960s, sterile males were used to eradicate the resident screwworm fly population in Florida and large areas of the Southwest. In a somewhat similar program, Agriculture Department officials in California recently released more than 350 million sterile males and females in an apparently successful attempt to control an invasion of relatively small numbers of the Mediterranean fruit fly. The invaders, mating mostly with...