Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the organization announced its plan to register all tusks as part of an ivory-control system, conservationists hoped the illegal trade would be curbed. But the deals that CITES officials struck with Singapore, Burundi and other nations, under which undocumented ivory could be registered, moved a mountain of ill-gotten ivory into the marketplace...
...vast wilderness waiting to be tamed. The land was a stage, a backdrop against which he could pursue his individual destiny. The story of the world was the story of a man, usually a white man, and its features took their meaning from their relationship to him. A mountain was a place to test one's manhood; an Asian jungle with its rich life and cultures was merely a setting for an ideological battle. The natives are there to be "liberated." By these standards even Communists are cowboys...
Three men were arrested and approximately $ 10 million in cash seized at the warehouse on an upscale, tree-lined street in the mostly residential community of Sylmar near the San Gabriel Mountain foothills...
Bush spoke more than a thousand miles from the snow-capped Rocky Mountain resort where Shevardnadze and Baker reached agreement on a chemical weapons accord and several other points...
...including those with old-growth forests (prized because of the high quality and quantity of their timber). The National Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have cooperated, selling rights to new tracts of forest every year. This policy, combined with modern logging machinery that makes cutting on mountain slopes easier, has put vast stands of old-growth trees in the chain saw's path...