Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Owl and Spee clubs deniedlast night that the Fly's move would have anyeffect on their organizations. Some clubs areknown to have held votes in the past on whether toadmit women...
While Clinton is a night owl, Gore goes to bed before Nightline and risesearly. Communications director Mark Gearan, who oversaw the vice- presidential selection process, said Gore's face went into free fall when Gearan told him that his meeting with then Governor Clinton about joining the ticket would begin at the Capital Hilton at 11:30 p.m., a good hour after Gore's bedtime. The Vice President says he has persuaded Clinton "to get more sleep...
...spotted owl was never really the issue, despite bumper stickers that squawked I LIKE SPOTTED OWLS -- FRIED and SAVE AN OWL, EDUCATE A LOGGER. But, as David Seideman points out in this thoughtful portrait of an Oregon logging town struggling with the severe decline of its only industry, the U.S. does not have an "Endangered Ecosystem Act." So, to save the last scraps of ancient, old-growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl...
...satisfied when President Clinton approved a plan to reduce logging by nearly two-thirds on federal lands -- and put habitats of the spotted owl off limits -- while providing more than $1 billion to retrain loggers and help tide over their communities. The timber industry attacked the compromise, saying it would devastate struggling businesses. And environmentalists complained it would permit cutting across large areas...
...created a wildflower meadow. Author of the new book Noah's Garden, Stein decries "the vast, nearly continuous and terribly impoverished ecosystem" consisting of copycat lawns and gardens from coast to coast. "We cannot in fairness rail against those who destroy the rain forest or threaten the spotted owl," she says, "when we have made our own yards uninhabitable...