Word: utters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Slope threatens to become a classic example of man's mindless destruction. The intense cold impedes nature's ability to heal itself; tire marks made in the tundra 25 years ago are still plainly visible. What most worries ecologists, in fact, is man's blindness to his own utter dependency on all ecosystems, such as oceans, coastal estuaries, forests and grasslands. Those ecosystems constitute the biosphere, a vast web of interacting organisms and processes that form the rhythmic cycles and food chains in which ecosystems support one another...
...handed him his father's gas credit card. The man slowly took it with a grease-smeared hand and wheeled around towards the credit-card press as my friend got back into the driver's seat. There was a little happy talk in the back seat about the utter foulness of the bathroom and nickels lost forever in the fucking gum machine. The gas station attendant came to the driver's window with the credit-card on a receipt-board...
...face of it, the Stadium is an utter economic waste of resources, being in profitable and honest use only five to six days a year for football (exclusive of some Thanksgiving Day use by schoolboy football), a few track-meets; and, of course, nowadays, "ad hoe" use for participatory democracy, and other quasipolitical activity. And, Oh, yes-for lease to Miss Joan Baez (I presume and indeed hope that it was, leased, and that some money went to Harvard), for purposes were surely commercial...
...take into account this month's 50% increase in the transit fare. Nearly three-quarters of the city's population live in families that earn less than $11,236. The bureau's "lower standard"-a subsistence budget allowing for only $1,022 beyond taxes and the utter necessities of life-is now up to $6,771. Yet the average wage for a production worker in the New York region last year amounted to only $6,527. In free translation, the Government's message to New Yorkers is that a majority of them really cannot afford...
...civilization," writes the editor of Attack!, "is founded and rests on violence. Every civilization is directly descended from a conquest; and if it were not for the constant promise of retaliatory violence from the law, me would live every moment at the utter mercy of criminals and thugs...