Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frozen turkeys, but Young wants money more than poultry. He warned that some cities and states face bankruptcy unless Washington loosens the purse strings. Said the mayor: "It seems as if Washington doesn't know what's going on. I don't understand what planet they...
...Terrain, the latest issue of this arrangement, is a companion volume to Basin and Range (1981). That book explained the New Geology, based on McPhee's travels through the far West with a proponent of plate tectonics. This branch of earth science grows from the theory that the planet's great land masses slide around like dishes on a boat. Over time, Africa could end up in Brazil's feijoada, Australia in China's egg foo yung...
...activist McCall was--an activist whose concerns transcended the typical fare of political battles. Tom McCall was an activist and a realist, who recognized that if man is going to live much longer on this planet, he must learn to take care of it. In an age of overpopulation, starvation, and continual abuse of the natural environment, the importance of McCall's brand of far-reaching environmental planning cannot be overestimated. By initiating strict environmental controls on his own state, McCall set an example for the rest of the nation. Massachusetts and several other states have instituted bottle bills following...
...follow-up mission for more sophisticated radar imaging has been approved for a shuttle flight in August 1984. Says J.P.L.'s Charles Elachi: "The plan is to concentrate and get much more coverage of the Sahara region." There is even talk of more radar missions to other planets. Radar pictures, which have already revealed some of the secrets under the clouds of Venus, may help scientists learn how planets developed. First choice would be Mars. The arid red planet's surface is etched with channels remarkably similar to those found beneath the surface of the Sahara...
...Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 and made way for Joseph Stalin, who died 29 years later, to be replaced briefly by Georgi Malenkov, who was outmaneuvered by Nikita Khrushchev, who in turn was ousted by Brezhnev in 1964. The changeovers in Moscow might as well have occurred on another planet. U.S. statesmen of those years had little understanding of what had happened, much less any anticipation of what was going to happen next, and still less any sense of what the U.S. could do about...