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...Scotland and other countries rimming the North Atlantic. The most destructive factor in forcing the salmon to retreat from their historic river haunts is the thousands of commercial nets, which drift at sea or are anchored near the entrance of rivers to ensnare salmon as they return to spawn. Only immediate government action can prevent the salmon's ultimate destruction...
...scientific specialties spawn subspecialties, the rapidly growing mass of information has confused the arts and humanities as well. Historical research now presupposes a mastery of old tax records and population movements, and anyone who ventures into such popular fields as American literature or impressionist art must wade into a rising tide of studies, analyses, psychographic portraits and sheer verbiage. In addition, all the political trends of the past two decades have tended to multiply the demands for studies in fields once ignored: Chinese history, the languages of Africa, the traffic in slaves, the thwarted ambitions of women...
...republic were ousted and replaced by a Soviet regime. Badly battered and widely dispersed, Armenians in the West have usually led quiet, industrious lives, little noticed in their host countries. In recent times, there has been a renaissance of Armenian history and culture, which has helped spawn a small band of extreme nationalists, inflamed by old passions and grievances...
...self-help can flourish." The "centerpiece" is a twelve-year exemption from tariffs on exports to the U.S., the first such trading advantage to be given to any region. Although 87% of U.S. imports from the basin are already duty-free, Reagan hopes that extending free trade will spawn new industries not currently covered by preferences...
...fell far short. Given the present-day disinclination of opera houses to produce untried, experimental and expensive new works, as well as a changing musical aesthetic that now looks upon serialism merely as a compositional tool and not an end in itself, it is unlikely that Die Soldaten will spawn any successors. -By Michael Walsh