Word: pits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taxes on energy resources pit the haves against the have-nots...
...saber-toothed tiger, that mysteriously disappeared from' the Western Hemisphere at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. Equines were not seen again in the New World until the Spanish reintroduced them in the 16th century. Yet other species located in the Love pit are still alive and well, even if not in Florida. The diggers, for example, identified the remains of tapirs, piglike animals that still roam the rain forests of South America and Malaysia, ancient beavers and squirrels, and even relatives of the Andean llama...
...digging and shooting have paid off handsomely. Webb considers the Love pit one of the richest U.S. fossil finds in years, unequaled anywhere in the Southeast. Some specimens turned up in almost wholesale quantities. His team, for example, dug up so many saber-toothed tiger bones that they may help shed a totally new light on the ferocious-looking cats. Some were so young they still had baby teeth, others were 25 to 30 years old. (In appreciation of the Loves, researchers even named one new sabertooth species after them: Barbourofelis lovei...
...content, Richard Nixon believes that "television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy." Nixon is a bruised witness, but he does have a point. Trying to compact a day's debate into 47 seconds and give it drama, a television reporter will pit the loudest advocate of a cause against its most outraged opponent. Onscreen, each will be shown talking away, but the words you hear are the reporter's, explaining what the story is really about. At last, the sound picks up a snippet of the speaker's own words. This irritating parody...
Centralia's ordeal began in 1962, when fire from a refuse pit southeast of town spread into one of the coal seams and then into the mines, eventually forcing them to close. At first, no one seemed terribly concerned. A 1965 attempt to locate and excavate the blaze-the only way to extinguish an anthracite fire-was abandoned when local funds ran out. A number of subsequent attempts were also unsuccessful. Many townspeople assumed that if they ignored the fire it would eventually burn itself...