Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back. On Friday a clutch of history buffs will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its dedication. Perhaps its long struggle to maturity has given it special qualities of endurance. The monument has settled only about two inches in its century, though it was built perilously near a swamp. It is struck by lightning dozens of times each year. One crazed man scared everybody a few years ago when he threatened to bomb the structure...
...anything the Syrians do. They want to stay in Lebanon, let them stay. Militarily, for Israel, I would prefer to see two divisions in Lebanon than the whole Syrian army on the Golan Heights. I know that whoever sets his foot in Lebanon has sunk into the Lebanese (swamp). They want it, let them enjoy it. We want one thing: that they do not move closer to our borders. That...
Moscow had been swept with rumors that Chernenko might step down at the plenum because of poor health. But the sole topic at the one-day session was agriculture. Chernenko outlined an ambitious 20-year development scheme, calling for the reclamation of 44.5 million acres of desert and swamp land, mainly in the country's temperate southern regions, by the end of the century. In the meantime, Moscow will have to make up for this year's poor harvest with extensive imports. Ironically, help is coming from the Reagan Administration. Under a new five-year grain-sale pact...
...contrast in style between the two editors could hardly be more acute. Winship is elfin, effervescent, demonstrative and unassumingly rumpled. He tells stories of his financially modest youth and calls himself a "swamp Yankee." Janeway is shy, sardonic, reserved and elegant. He has the seigneurial manner befitting a son of Economics Columnist Eliot Janeway and Author Elizabeth Janeway (Powers of the Weak). Perhaps the only obvious characteristic the men share is that like dozens of their staffers they are graduates of Harvard, yet they agree on the problems the paper must correct...
Such clues could help researchers better understand life in the Eocene, a time of turbulent change, climatic as well as geological. The earth was slowly cooling, and swamp areas were evaporating. As a result, hundreds of species were dying or seeking warmth farther south. The North American monkeys, for example, migrated to Central and South America. Warmblooded beasts that could adjust to the new cold thrived, among them the forebears of pigs, cows, cats and dogs. For animals, says Stucky, the epoch "was a revolution." And with the bones unearthed for scientists to explore and understand, that revolution continues...