Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concession. Though all gray wolves in the U.S. are officially listed as endangered, the transplanted wolves are considered an "experimental" population. It's an important distinction; while endangered wolves are protected under almost all circumstances, wolves in experimental populations enjoy protection only as long as they don't present a threat to livestock. Under this definition, the Yellowstone wolves live their lives in a state of permanent probation, safe only as long as they mind their business and stay in their range. Wolves that go AWOL and attack domestic animals can be shot as summarily as their ancestors were...
...both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys be forced to present a defense they think is virtually suicidal? If someone is sane enough to stand trial, does that mean he's sane enough to defend himself if his best defense is that he's crazy? Just what does the U.S. Constitution owe a mad genius? The confusion was so great that...
...present, mainstream scientists universally agree. Which, of course, is why Seed has stirred up such a fuss. How do we as a society really feel about cloning humans? Will opposition really evaporate--as Seed insists it will--the minute the public beholds "half a dozen bouncing-baby, happy, smiling clones"? Seed has succeeded in forcing a national debate on the issue, but it seems increasingly unlikely that he will be the one to put it to the test...
This was greeted with outrage in Austria and dismay in the U.S. Austrian Culture Minister Elizabeth Gehrer called Morgenthau's intervention a "heavy blow to the international exchange of art" that "shakes the foundations of trust." It seemed particularly insulting that Morgenthau's office had behaved as though the present Austrian government, whose conduct in the restitution of art stolen by Nazis after the Anschluss has been impeccable, would stoop to the sort of cover-up deployed by Swiss bankers over their stocks of stolen Jewish gold...
Today the event has a different significance for the observer of black history. In 1955, it stood as a portent of great things to come in King's career and that of his own congregation and black people in the nation. Now, it represents a judgement upon the present...