Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best place to preserve the earth's biodiversity is in the ecosystems that gave rise to it. Man must abandon the belief that the natural order is mere stuff to be managed and domesticated, and accept that humans, like other creatures, depend on a web of life that must be disturbed as little as possible...
Playing another radio host, Robin Williams spun this voluptuous sort of word web for maybe 15 minutes in Good Morning, Vietnam and won an Oscar nomination. What does Bogosian deserve? For most of this engrossing, infuriating movie, he sits in a radio studio and just talks, a shaman sparking his listeners' minds around the communal campfire. It is a spellbinding turn...
...judge decided that no more than three religious symbols at a time may be exhibited at the Daley Center Plaza, and for no longer than 14 days. Complains Allegheny County attorney George Janocsko: "The cases are elevating trifling details and making them matters of constitutional significance." The legal web has prompted officials to devise ingenious strategies for maintaining holiday displays. Small plots of city properties have been sold to private groups, as in Dearborn, Mich., or declared public parks, as in Downey, Calif., in order to erect creches...
...Nick is a new professor at the university where George teaches and where Martha's father is president. Martha invites Nick and Honey to her home for dinner. In the course of the evening, slightly-left-of-center Martha and George pull unsuspecting Nick and Honey into the tangled web of their confused love-hate relationship...
...decade ago, quickly became the engine of the Wall Street firm's furious growth. One reason is that junk bonds earn hefty fees: Drexel charges 3% to 4% of an offering's total value, compared with a fee of less than 1% for a higher-grade issue. Milken's web of buyers and sellers for the bonds has given him a virtual lock on the market, though the entry of such competitors as Morgan Stanley and First Boston has whittled Drexel's market share from a monopoly in the late 1970s to about 50% today. For his huge contribution...