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Word: wayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living covet the vast habitats set aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind eye to poaching. Revenues from tourism and safaris have yet to improve the lot of the African people enough to win them over to wildlife management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...miles in ten weeks traveling around the globe. He began toward the end of the ivory trail, in Tokyo and Hong Kong, where more than 400 tons of ivory were imported last year. Visiting warehouses where tusks were stacked to the ceiling, "I got to see the ivory the way the Far East sees ivory -- divorced from the animal and remote from the killing," Gup says. "Most of the consumers are so far from the source that they cannot imagine its origin in axes and blood. As I went back toward Africa, the horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Oct 16 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...says he was won over by the animals. "I wish the whole world could see the elephants the way I saw them," Gup says. "Then they would understand that ivory is not jade; it's not a mineral. It's the product of a magnificent animal that has suffered tremendously so that people can wear something gleaming around their necks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Oct 16 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...coming from general tax revenues. Small wonder that the most prosperous Medicare recipients, largely protected by private health insurance, rebelled against being singled out to aid the less fortunate. That responsibility should rest with all taxpayers. Despite the phony fixation on fiscal gimmicks, broad-based taxation remains the fairest way to fund federal programs. It is a principle that Congress and the White House ignore at their peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invitation To Catastrophe | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...similar sort of success may await Some Can Whistle, McMurtry's 13th novel. If so, that will be a redemption of sorts for an uncharacteristical ly spotty performance between hard covers. Plot has given way to concocted situations, conversation displaced by laugh-track dialogue. Everything and everyone in the tale reeks of Hollywood, particularly the narrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Movie-Cute | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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