Word: polarization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized package should touch down on July 4, 1976, near the mouth of a 3,000-mile-long gorge that cuts across the Red Planet like a Martian Grand Canyon. The second probe is to land near the north polar cap. Both sites were picked because they could contain traces of water -essential to all terrestrial life...
Pandas are popping up in the unlikeliest places, and so are polar bears, tigers, alligators, orangutans and dozens of other endangered species. They are seen on the fronts of men's ties, on the backs of women's slacks and peering from inside snuffboxes. The animal images are part of an expanding program by the U.S. branch of the World Wildlife Fund to raise money to study and set up preserves for species that are threatened with extinction. In return for a percentage of profits on products depicting these creatures, the fund has made deals with eight companies...
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds -the so-called circumpolar vortex-that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America...
...these types of battles aren't limited to politics among hockey teams. Basketball has developed into a two-bloc system, and, recently, football has become a tri-polar set-up on the NFL, CFL and the lesser WFL (Very similar to the U.S., Soviet Union, China big three line-up). Among these last three there has been a constant battle to recruit and sign-up college talent which closely resembles the scramble among superpowers to enlist lesser nations on their sides, often through devious alliances...
...Eskimos, the Aleuts, the Tlingits and the Athabaskans incorporate rams' heads into their basket designs and polar bears into their pipes. When these people grace a carved ivory harpoon rest with two otters, it's not for the sake of design, but for their religion, that the two belong together...