Word: parks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rose said that buses have been blocking traffic flow because they stop in one-lane traffic and double park next to a row of meters while passengers board. "It's a bad place to stop anyway because it's at a corner," he said...
...best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone." So wrote Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, the once bucolic site that provided his retreat from civilization. If Thoreau returned today, he would be appalled: last year some 350,000 visitors swarmed through the 400-acre state park near Concord, Mass., in an attempt to recapture the writer's sense of tranquillity...
Some experts fear that increased support ofjoint industry-university centers of jointindustry-university centers will move governmentfunding away from research in the basic sciences.The competitiveness initiative may narrowuniversity research into areas narrowly focused onthe demands of industry and restrict academicfreedom, said Robert L. Park, director of theWashington, D.C.-based American Physical Society...
...Reagan has threatened freedom in research fora number of years. There have always beenincreasing stipulations on funding as thegovernment has increasingly attempted to directacademic research," Park said this week...
Translated into American idiom, the title reads A Z and Two Zeros, which, graphologically speaking, reads ZOO, or zoo, which is the common abbreviation for zoological park, a place where men keep animals for display...