Word: save
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then they hit play. They groan as a corner kick flies into the middle of the penalty box. They cringe as Brown halfback Suzanne Bailey nails a header towards the far post. They shudder as Crimson back Amy Weinstein dashes across the goal in a desperate save attempt. They watch in horror as the ball trickles across the line...
...glasses and mugs instead of paper cups in all dining halls besides the Union Even in Adams and Quincy--which try hard to hide their reuseable cups--have mugs or glasses that you can use. Bring your own mug for take-out coffee--it's nicer than paper anyway. Save old handouts and notices and write your rough-drafts of papers, problem sets or letters on the back of them, instead if using fresh paper. Take lecture notes on both sides of each sheet of paper in notebooks or yellow pads. Use handkerchiefs instead of paper tissues--they are cheaper...
...carry little weight, tourist dollars are nonexistent, and the herds continue to shrink. In Angola and Mozambique, for example, rebels use ivory to help finance military operations. Said a spokesman for Mozambique: "If the war stops, people can live, students can go back to school, and yes, we can save elephants...
...missionary spirit has always hovered over the U.S.'s relations with far- off, backward lands. In the mid-19th century, New England ministers went abroad to save souls. A century later, foreign aid technocrats preached the virtues of hydroelectric dams and other megaprojects. Now a new generation of globe-trotting officials is spreading the gospel of environmentalism...
...year review of the way it monitors the world economy. The World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...