Word: tails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just six inches from tip to tail, the tiny brown birds made their home in a ten-mile coastal stretch of marsh near Titusville, Fla. When development from nearby Cape Canaveral began to encroach, they stubbornly refused to move, and their numbers declined relentlessly. Last week the last known Dusky Seaside Sparrow expired: Orange Band, a twelve-year-old male, was found dead in its + cage...
...dates back to the era of tail fins and Hula-Hoops. Finally, after 30 years of frustration, the Justice Department is preparing a new offensive in its continuing struggle to cleanse mob stains from the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Federal officials confirmed last week that the Government plans to file a path-breaking civil suit asking the courts to replace the national leadership of the Teamsters with a federal trustee. The takeover bid would not affect the upcoming criminal trial of Teamster President Jackie Presser on federal racketeering charges...
...think communities must be free to plan and take chances," says Curtis Berger, a Columbia University law professor. "They ought not to be forced to plan at their peril." Worries Jim Williams of the Washington State Association of Counties: "Right now we've got a small tiger by the tail, and we don't know how big it's going...
...breathtaking view of almost every hazard that currently confronts the U.S. and world economies. In the foreground is the distressingly weak dollar, which threatens to push the inflation rate out of control once again. In the middle distance: sluggish levels of U.S. and world growth that could easily tail off into global recession, especially if American interest rates, already on the rise, should climb too high. In the background is the ugly accumulation of Third World debt, an unstable mass that if not properly managed could still crush the world financial system...
...Follow me around. I don't care. I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored," Hart was quoted as saying in yesterday's editions of The New York Times Magazine...