Word: replantable
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...years before all of the flashy asphalt art yields to nature and government. Advertisers can still erect their jumbo signs 660 feet from federally aided roads. Besides, any company that loses a billboard can buy it back and replant it elsewhere. Thus billboards could come to resemble the traveling hucksters of an earlier America, always one step ahead...
...peered into the nucleus of a cell and unlocked its secrets, probed deep within his own psyche to dissect its motives, even learned to uproot a heart and replant it in the body of another. He has done much with his own world, good and bad, but he has not learned to conquer it-or himself. Yet it is in his nature, even while he struggles with the challenges of new frontiers, to keep on creating ever newer ones. Last week the latest frontier in man's long journey through history moved more than 250,000 miles from...
...unfair, but not altogether untrue summary of Morris' lifelong attempt to replant some of the virtues of medieval Christendom into the sooty soil of 19th century England...
...adopted a law placing stiff controls on the strip miners. The law becomes effective in June, requires the companies to dump stripped soil in places where it cannot slide down exposed mountainsides. After the coal has been extracted, the companies must refill their gouges in the earth, terrace and replant their access cuts and, under certain conditions, regrade the slope to its original contour. Kentucky thereby became the seventh state to impose similar controls on strip coal mining. The others: West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland...
...ever-growing building industry must have lumber; conservationists cherish forests. Here also the outcome is a compromise-the Government allows selective lumbering in the national forests, the lumber companies replant trees. But in cases of truly virgin forest and the privately owned California redwood tracts, the savers and the cutters are at irreconcilable loggerheads. The Sierra Club and other conservationists insist, with reason, that there is no way to replant a 2,000-year-old redwood or a forest never before touched by human industry...