Word: sop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Researchers have lately pondered the fact that aquatic organisms (fish, plankton, diatoms, insect larvae) concentrate the dissolved pollutants in their bodies. That fact led Robert Metcalf, head of the University of Illinois' zoology department, to a fascinating idea: Why not use certain insects to sop up the pollutants...
...junta's repressiveness and persistent diplomatic as well as moral pressure from Europe (West Germany and Scandinavia in particular) has had some effect on the colonels. Some-but not much. The recent relaxation, TIME Correspondent John Shaw reported from Athens, amounts to little more than a sop to the regime's critics. Nearly 2,000 political prisoners are under arrest; last week about 40 of them were suddenly exiled to distant Aegean islands as security risks. Parliament remains shuttered, and parts of the constitution are still suspended. Newspapers are required to censor themselves, and their efforts...