Word: renews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animal has done more to renew interest in animal intelligence than a beguiling, bilingual bonobo named Kanzi, who has the grammatical abilities of a 2 1/2-year-old child and a taste for movies about cavemen. The 12-year-old pygmy chimpanzee lives with a colony of other apes in a cage complex on the wooded campus of the Georgia State University Language Research Center, near Atlanta. Under the tutelage of psychologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, he makes his desires known either by pointing to symbols printed on a laminated board or by punching the symbols on a special keyboard that then generates...
...proposal calls for a 20-year lease with the option to extend for another 20 years. The contract needs to be written, councillors said, so that the option to renew the lease lies legally with CASPAR...
...believe that the council should renew Healy's contract. The answer to council-manager friction isn't to dump a man who has been such an asset to the city, but to regulate the office in general. The council must demand greater accountability from Healy if they are wary of his power (and they should be). Healy has done a good job of running the city's business in the past, and under the watchful eye of the council, he should continue to do so in the future...
...deeply voters wanted to believe his promises about a new way of doing business in the capital. It would have been a sad start to a historic presidency if Americans had been willing to accept anything less than the ideals that Clinton himself did so much to renew...
...renew America, we must meet the challengesabroad as well as at home. There is no cleardivision today between what is foreign and what isdomestic--the world economy, the worldenvironment, the world AIDS crisis, the world armsrace affects...