Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I said I didn't believe in conservation for conservation's sake, I meant you can't just lock up something and continue to sustain its value. A man can be a genius, but if you set him aside from society, put him in a corner, he'll vegetate. It's the same with natural resources like grazing lands or forests. The Federal Government has an obligation as a great landowner. I think we can find land, in addition to our great scenic or wild areas, which can be utilized to a higher degree...
Zwicky would also produce carbon dioxide by focusing the rays of a solar furnace on rocks containing calcium carbonate. The carbon dioxide would be released into the atmosphere of a covered garden to sustain green algae living in a tank of water. The rapidly reproducing algae would not only be an excellent source of protein for humans on the moon but would also produce vitally needed oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis...
...simply stops; Ophuls intercuts an extraordinary series of medium and long shots of her stationary figure atop a hill. With this cessation of motion, she is dead--and indeed Ophuls dissolves to a shot of her coffin. A romantic life demanded her continuous motion, and when she can longer sustain it, her position in her surroundings is fixed--and she is dead...
...Ferrari's single-seat Formula 1 cars have broken down in three major races - Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix of Spain and of South Africa. The laborious production of about 700 handmade cars a year - which sell for an average $12,000 each in Italy-can no longer sustain the rising cost of racing...
...Fifth Avenue, in New York City's shinier suburbs and in Palm Beach, Grosse Pointe, Atlanta and other places where $1,000 cloth coats and $500 dresses move fast. Magnin's planners expect to increase the current $100 million annual sales and to generate enough business to sustain Magnin's custom clothing operation-a costly field from which Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman have recently been forced to retire. Magnin's expansionary plans have the backing of its powerful parent, Federated Department Stores, Inc. whose 97 stores include Filene's in Boston, Foley...