Word: tracee
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...asked Wilson to trace the developmentof his concern with diversity hoping to discoverwhy he had taken up this battle when others hadnot. For Wilson, The Diversity of Life isthe culmination of many years of increasingconcern with the fate of biodiversity, a subjectthat has only recently creeped into the nationalpress...
Democracy is so fragile in the Arab world that its appearance even in limited form is encouraging. In a Kuwaiti election last week, the vote was restricted to males 21 and older who were able to trace their ancestry in the emirate to 1920 -- only 13% of the population of 650,000. (Women might be allowed to vote in 1996.) Though small, the vote last week was free enough to enable a coalition opposed to the regime of Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah to win 31 of 50 parliamentary seats. The government can expect sharp debate over its unpreparedness...
Superintendent of Sewers Jerry F. Lucey inspected the area this week and likewise said he found no trace of sewage...
...escort two young maidens through the wilderness during the French and Indian War. In the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, romance blossoms between the officer and the younger woman, and between Uncas and the elder. To avoid shocking his readers with miscegenation, Cooper gave the elder just the tiniest trace of Black blood. This racist attitude so shocked our modern screenwriters that they decided to make make Natty the romantic lead instead of Uncas. So the central romance is now white-on-white, and the Mohican is nearly written out of his own story. There may be a moral here...
...call his play aimless and amateurish. One Russian grand master advises patronizingly that Fischer must "realize that chess has changed in the past 20 years." World champion Garry Kasparov notes the "low level" of play in the match. "Incredibly low," says international master Alex Sherzer, with more than a trace of disgust...