Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, the I.O.C. is scheduled to wrap up its internal review by Jan. 23. Members found to have solicited bribes may be forced to resign. A popular proposal, supported by the irrepressible 80-year-old Hodler, is that voting on host cities be limited to the executive board, which has 11 members...
Surrounded by half-filled boxes, plastic wrap and stacks of new merchandise, Emerson certainly looks the part of a shopkeeper...
...took 10 years of campaigning by Pilchuk, for instance, to get the big agency to back off plans to replace a modest gravel road in an old-growth forest with a broad, paved highway. Although there is no "Endangered Habitat Act," Phillips and other environmentalists were able, sometimes, to wrap the Endangered Species Act around old-growth forests. Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees. Phillips is awed by the murrelet, a seabird that flies to Washington's forests--farther away every year because of logging...
...SARAN WRAP In 2000 Year Old Man, Mel Brooks tells Carl Reiner that "the greatest thing mankind ever devised, I think, in my humble opinion, is Saran Wrap." Why? Because "you can put a sandwich in it! You can look through it!...It's so good and cute." Dow Chemical introduced its revolutionary packaging material, which is durable, airtight, transparent and flexible...
Many people in rural America, just getting by, still depend on hunting for meat to fill the freezer. But mostly the country buys its meat in cling-wrap packages at Safeway and Winn-Dixie. "We've lost our connection to the land and the outside world," says Jerry DeBin, Alabama's coordinator of conservation education. "Most people don't even notice which way the wind is blowing today. The squirrel or deer may be eating more today because a change in the weather is coming, but we don't pay attention to these things anymore...