Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman house selection has been transformed so drastically in its 60 years of existence that today's system seems to be a polar opposite of the first selection process of the 1930s...
...shipwreck is one result of the largely unregulated growth of Antarctic enterprise. Says Peter Wilkniss, head of the National Science Foundation's polar programs: "We are witnessing the dawn of the commercial age in Antarctica." Thousands of tourists are flocking to the once inaccessible continent. Throughout the 1984-85 season, only 400 people visited Antarctica, but in the week before the Bahia Paraiso hit the reef, more than 500 visitors passed through Palmer Station alone. And Antarctic tourists are doing more than sailing to research centers for short visits and lecture tours. In 1988, 35 adventurers paid $35,000 each...
...early '80s, Steve Martin said, "I believe that Ronald Reagan will make this country what it once was: a polar region covered with ice." While the legacy of Ronald Reagan isn't quite that dramatic, he has been responsible for an increased coolness in America's political and moral climate...
...earth will not remain as it is now. From its beginnings as a chunk of molten rock and gas some 4.5 billion years ago, the planet has seen continents form, move together and drift apart like jigsaw-puzzle pieces. Successive ice ages have sent glaciers creeping down from the polar caps. Mountain ranges have jutted up from ocean beds, and landmasses have disappeared beneath the waves...
Robinson's map, though bound to be widely adopted, is unlikely to end the bitter disputes that map-makers have waged for centuries. Inevitably, specialized maps will offer other perspectives and schemes, including polar shots from space. The new map coincides with the society's current campaign for geographic literacy, and it comes just in time. A recent Gallup poll showed that 3 out of 10 Americans cannot distinguish north from south...