Word: serial
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...orange roughy industry in the 1970s (the name orange roughy was dreamed up to better market the slimehead fish, which was initially tossed overboard as trash fish), the ocean's stock of roughy was 75% depleted. Over the years, this "tragedy of the global commons" has resulted in the serial depletion of one species after another...
...next challenge was bringing the kit to market. The clock was ticking, particularly in Western European countries, where infected cows continued to crop up. Cashman approached George Adams, a serial entrepreneur who had recently resigned as head of the University of Toronto's Innovations Foundation. Amorfix Life Sciences is expected to introduce the diagnostic kit in Europe in 2007; Adams says the kit will generate $10 million in 2007 sales for the publicly held company...
...extensive rock pedigree. When he left the band in 1975 and went solo, he remained a restless creative force but gave up much of his commercial clout. The rhythmic complexities of his songs wove eerie aural patterns through which lyrics chased each other like phantoms from a surrealist serial. The music was simultaneously challenging and forbidding, and Gabriel was typed unfairly as an elitist working in a populist form. Biko began breaking this image down, and the So album has put it to rest forever. The process has received no little help from the raucous Sledgehammer video, which shows Gabriel...
...bring my rat trap, and there will be a live rat inside, to show you they do indeed exist,” she said at the time. But the agitators aren’t without their opponents and the most vocal among them has been serial commenter Roy Bercaw. “The only way you’re going to get rid of rodents is to get rid of people and food. If you just allow biotech companies and alcohol in the city, you’ll have no more rodents,” Bercaw said at a council...
...life and death is the root of art and religion. The difference between studying an animal's survival and writing her a poem is the difference between asking how and asking why. The latter may seem odd, but it's as much an adaptive response as a meerkat's serial mating. We are social creatures in a beautiful, cruel universe. We use whatever tools we can to survive...