Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halt or slow down an insatiable logging industry that has been turning ancient trees into lumber at the rate of more than 55,000 acres of old growth a year. But for the owl to prevail, its status as a threatened species must be formally declared, a process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat, and multitudes of buzz saws that have been felling the trees would have to stop. Loggers warn that unemployment would follow. Sad, but not as ineffably sad or final as extinction...
...that radio talk hosts wield. "All we did," he says of the anti-pay raise jihad, "was direct passions and emotions to the right place." Not everyone regards him so benignly. Columnist Tom Moroney of the suburban Middlesex News has charged that Williams "does a disservice to the political process" and claims that he isn't legally registered to vote in Massachusetts. (Williams denies the charge; Moroney, he counters, is "evil incarnate...
...Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, two chemists who had dared to venture from their field into the private domain of nuclear physicists. Less than six weeks earlier, Pons, of the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of Britain's University of Southampton, claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, at room temperature. Because the experiment produced much more energy than it consumed, said the chemists, it could lead to the development of an almost limitless power source. Physicists were skeptical, but they scurried to their labs to see if the seemingly impossible could be true...
...That particular statement is incompetent and not serious. I think President Bush understands the situation quite well when he says perestroika is an irreversible process. We had no alternative, and we have no alternative. Perestroika will succeed...
...chemistry. There will be more late nights, with briefing papers to be finished and reviewed for the Baker visit and China summit. "You have to pay a price for everything," says Deputy Minister Petrovsky. "But at least there is a dynamic feeling now of being part of an exciting process." And when Petrovsky leaves for home at 10 on any evening, chances are that the lights will still be burning bright in his boss's office...