Word: roote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Education efforts, both in Africa and in ivory-consuming nations, should emphasize just how crucial elephants are to African ecosystems. Elephants not only inhabit but also shape their habitat. In their search for food, they uproot and topple trees, allowing grasses and shrubs to take root and sunlight to reach the ground. By digging with their tusks, the great beasts bring underground pools to the surface, creating water holes that sustain a host of thirsty creatures. Warns a May 1989 study by a consortium of conservationists: "The elephant's extermination will lead to biological impoverishment and domino-like extinctions over...
East Germany's decision to permit the mass departures was almost certainly occasioned by the approaching national anniversary. But the larger dilemma remains unresolved. New travel restrictions do not address the root causes of widespread popular disaffection in East Germany. "It's like taking an aspirin for a toothache," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "It may relieve the pain, but it won't fix the problem." As the rioting in Dresden made only too clear, the refugees who had the good luck to act are hardly the only ones who want out. In Leipzig, 10,000 East Germans marched...
...once read about two minor league owners who swapped teams. Ha, ha. They should be immortalized in the Hall of Lame, along with the genius who started wiggling the camera during AT&T ads. They were screwing with their fans' identities. Who do you root for? Should you move...
...they decided to take matters into their own hands. "We felt that it was up to the American people to establish contacts with the Soviets." Now near the end of their sojourn, however, the Dulls are finding that their ideals of cross-cultivation do not so easily take root...
...taking place in the Soviet Union, Dull's millennium is still a long way off. "It will take another five years to see real results in increased production," he believes, "The entrenched inefficiency and mismanagement that are part of the Soviet bureaucratic system, however, will take even longer to root...