Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finale of Gershwin's Concerto in F. And now I had made an appointment with his successors to judge the extent of change among the dread Security Police in the new South Africa. Though I was no longer too scared to go in there, I was sufficiently apprehensive to resort mentally to Fascinating Rhythm as I pressed the button beside the familiar steel grille...
...staying power is the least of it. As pessimism about the embargo's long- term effectiveness leads logically to battle, so the Administration's goal of crippling the worst of Saddam's war-fighting capacity appears unattainable without resort to force. The President has danced around this objective for weeks, but the evidence grows that merely restoring the status quo ante will not yield "security and stability" in the gulf, one of Bush's publicly stated goals. As he told Congress last week, America wants "to curb the proliferation of chemical, biological, ballistic-missile and, above all, nuclear technologies...
...Beach Co., which operates four golf courses on California's Monterey Peninsula that rank among the world's most scenic. The deal makes Pebble Beach the jewel of Isutani's international golf empire, which includes courses under development in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Hawaii and a new golf resort in Salzburg, Austria...
...goats was reduced to only 4, and in the Smokies the wild boar population has been pared. Smaller animals are much harder to fight, and plants harder still. Herbicides kill too indiscriminately, and bringing in new exotic species to control the old is demonstrably dangerous. Rangers often have to resort to chopping down or uprooting invading plants one by one, a holding action at best. In the end, park officials -- and visitors -- will have to accept that the nation's wild lands will never return to their original state. The best that can be done is to work hard...
...wasted if it is allowed to flow into the sea. This approach ignored the ecological importance of wetlands and brackish waters, and the price of this ignorance has been the disappearance of many fisheries and waterfowl. Conservationists have had to turn to the Endangered Species Act for last- resort protection for ecosystems. In Nevada the Interior Department is currently trying to satisfy agricultural demands for water while preserving the endangered fish and wetlands in the Stillwater National Wildlife Preserve. Such balancing acts are going to become ever more common. Says former Governor Bruce Babbitt of Arizona: "Only very recently...