Word: wasteland
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...local government. In his view, the concentration of legislative, executive and oversight powers into the hands of city councils has become a "minefield of exploding booby traps." But he does nurture his own dream for the city that Peter the Great built in the 18th century out of / frozen wasteland on the western edge of Russia. "We want to be more than a window to Europe," says Sobchak. "We want to open a door to the whole world." But first Sobchak must worry about more prosaic matters, like finding enough potatoes to keep his city...
...wife Debora is a graduate student in geography. They swept up the entire region, from Texas to Montana, in their analysis. Their language was apocalyptic ("largest, longest-running agricultural and environmental miscalculation in the nation's history"), their images devastating ("dreams, drought and dust") and their predictions frightening ("a wasteland, an American empty quarter...
...executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland...
...result is desertification, a gradual conversion of marginal land into wasteland. This process is often driven by population pressures, which force people to work lands unsuitable for agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, settlers move into an area when it is wet and green, and then stay and remove the ground cover when the inevitable drought returns. Without a green barrier to stop them, sand dunes march inexorably forward...
...executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland...