Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youngsters were allowed to go out trick-or-treating, armed men checked out every street and back alley. Even after the masked and costumed kids were let loose, some adults stood guard on the outskirts of town. It was not ghosts and hobgoblins that were on their minds, but polar bears...
Though few people ever get to see the furry white beasts, except for glum captives in city zoos, there is a plethora of polar bears around Churchill, especially in fall. By the time the ice freezes on Hudson Bay, as many as 200 may have passed through what local residents call the Polar Bear Capital of the World. The onetime fur-trading center happens to sit astride one of the animals' age-old migratory routes...
...congregating around the bay's southwestern shores, mostly in the area of Cape Churchill, only 35 miles east of the town, where the first ice usually forms. Meanwhile, pregnant females, urged on by another instinct, head for a bleak region 50 miles south of Churchill, the largest known polar bear denning area in the world. As many as 100 females hole up there for the winter in dens scooped out of the gravel and snow to have their cubs, usually two at a time. The new families will not emerge from their hideaways until spring...
Negotiation rarely works if it is a merely mechanical compromise of polar extremes conducted, as the behavioral scientist says, "in a complex mixed-motive ambience of trust and suspicion." The best negotiations are inventive. A feistily savvy book, Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything, manages to convey the impression that all negotiations should even be fun; at the end of each, like the six solved faces of a Rubik's Cube, lies a "win-win" settlement-a mutuality in which both sides profit. Another recent book, Getting to Yes, arrives (a little more rigorously) at the same...
...atmosphere as rapidly as it has in the past few decades from burning wood and fossil fuels, the atmosphere will become increasingly like that of Venus. Sunlight will still beat down through the atmosphere, but the CO2 will block heat from radiating back into space, raising global temperatures, melting polar ice and flooding coastal cities...