Word: paired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junior national rowers in high school, Mary and Betsy won in the pair, a four and an eight, in addition to traveling to Europe twice with the U.S. junior national team...
...sure that we were right for each other and not just that we had been together so long," Lee says. "Being apart also means that you can see yourself alone, and that's important, too." Lee adds that her friends also began to see the two exclusively as a pair rather than as individuals and this view affected her relationships with them...
...answering critics who have insisted that the U.S. space program has for years had no clear mission. If NASA gets the go-ahead, the project, which would cost an estimated $20 billion over the next two decades, could begin by 1996 with the launching of the first of a pair of 15-ton unmanned space platforms called the earth- observing system (EOS). Designed to operate for at least 15 years, the satellites would give scientists their first comprehensive look at just how the world's environment changes over time. Detectors would monitor the shrinking of the tropical rain forests...
Across a parcel of scorched landscape, a pair of male ground squirrels are enacting an annual ritual. Chirping madly, the rivals dash at each other, tails raised, seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time...
...highly controversial hunt last fall and winter just outside the park (570 killed) and harsh weather (260) than by the fire (9). Yellowstone's best-known residents, 200 or so grizzlies, may have been reduced by a total of two as a result of the conflagrations. A pair of bears that had been tagged with radio transmitters could not be located during the winter. Says Assistant Chief Ranger Gary Brown: "The bears don't seem to be frightened by fire. Poaching is a bigger threat by a long shot." The grizzlies will, however, find it more difficult to locate...