George Stanley McGovern
George Stanley McGovern , 1922-, U.S. senator from South Dakota (1963-81), b. Avon, S.Dak. He was (1942-45) a decorated B-24 bomber pilot during World War II and later taught (1949-53) American history. After serving as a Democrat (1957-61) in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was (1961-62) director of President Kennedy's Food for Peace Program and helped to found the UN World Food Program. Elected (1962) to the U.S. Senate, McGovern became an outspoken critic of defense spending and was among the first senators to oppose the Vietnam War . At the 1968 Democratic convention he tried unsuccessfully to rally the antiwar supporters of the late Robert F. Kennedy .
In 1971 McGovern announced his candidacy for the presidency, promising to end the war in Vietnam, grant amnesty to Vietnam draft resisters, cut defense spending by $30 billion, increase corporate taxes, and provide a guaranteed annual income for all Americans. His grassroots campaign won him the Democratic nomination in 1972, but his handling of the Thomas Eagleton affair, in which he announced full support for his running mate and then dropped him for Sargent Shriver , plus Republican charges of radicalism, contributed to his defeat by Richard M. Nixon in the election. Also contributing to his loss was the wounding of George Wallace , whose probable third-party candidacy would have siphoned votes away from Nixon.
McGovern subsequently served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations under Presidents Ford and Carter. He lost a bid for a fourth Senate term in 1980, and made an unsuccessful run for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination. Under President Clinton, McGovern served as U.S. representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization. In 2001 he became the World Food Program's first global ambassador on hunger. He has written War against Want (1964), A Time of War, A Time of Peace (1968), The Great Coalfield War (1972), Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism (1996), The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time (2001), and The Essential America (2004).
Bibliography: See his autobiography (1978); biography by R. S. Anson (1972); studies by R. Dougherty (1973), G. W. Hart (1973), and E. McGovern (1974); S. E. Ambrose, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany (2001); B. Miroff: The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party (2007).
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Elasmobranch landings for the Portuguese commercial fishery from 1986 to 2001.
Magazine article from: Marine Fisheries Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Musick, 1995). The delicate nature of elasmobranch populations emphasizes the need for...taxonomic group. In 1983, the Portuguese elasmobranch fishery expanded rapidly due to an...During the same period, the demand for elasmobranch flesh steadily increased, and at present...
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Feeding ecology of elasmobranch fishes in coastal waters of the Colombian Eastern Tropical Pacific.(Research article)(Report)
Magazine article from: BMC Ecology; 9/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...2]; Alan Giraldo [2] Background Elasmobranch fishes are among the top predators...Despite the ecological importance of elasmobranch fishes for the marine ecosystem, resource...amount of data on the diet of different elasmobranch species has been reported to date...
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An elasmobranch assemblage from the terrestrial-marine transitional Lethbridge Coal Zone (Dinosaur Park Formation: Upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...reflects an increasing marine influence. Elasmobranch (sharks and rays) remains are the...extensive taphonomic reworking. The elasmobranch fauna collected from the Dinosaur Park...Formation. Although the presence of a rich elasmobranch fauna is described for the first time...
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Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of the Elasmobranch Fishes
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2002; ; 449 words
; ...Skates, and Rays : The Biology of the Elasmobranch Fishes, William Hamlett (Ed.) 1999...Frank Daniels' classic reference The Elasmobranch Fishes, this book serves as a valuable...may not have the formal background in elasmobranch biology. Sixteen chapters detail each...
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Central pathways mediating oculomotor reflexes in an elasmobranch, Scyliorhinus canicula.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...extraocular motoneurons in the adults of elasmobranch species have uniformly demonstrated...rectus (LR) muscle is ipsilateral in elasmobranches, just as it is in all other vertebrates...frogs (16) and mammals (1). The elasmobranch developmental pattern is different...
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A novel statistical method for validating the periodicity of vertebral growth band formation in elasmobranch fishes.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Introduction Elasmobranch species (sharks, skates, and...determine the age of fish. For elasmobranch fish, growth band pairs in the...authors of reports of the age of elasmobranch populations have assumed that growth...
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Long-term trends in catch composition from elasmobranch derbies in Elkhorn Slough, California.(Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve)
Magazine article from: Marine Fisheries Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...means of collecting data on estuarine elasmobranch populations. From 1951 to 1962, Herald...format. Collection of data from the elasmobranch derbies was sporadic in the late 1960...these elasmobranchs in Elkhorn Slough. Elasmobranch species composition and seaso
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Smalltooth sawfish: the USA's first endangered elasmobranch? (Marine Matters).
Newspaper article from: Endangered Species Update; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...2002, the smalltooth sawfish would become the first elasmobranch on the US Endangered Species List. Introduction...Pristiformes: Pristidae) are a group of seven species of elasmobranch that have a distinctive elongate tooth rostrum...
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First Observations of Feeding on Thresher (Alopias vulpinus) and Hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) Sharks by Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Specialising on Elasmobranch Prey
Magazine article from: Aquatic Mammals; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...this population. Key Words: Killer whale, Orcinus orca, elasmobranch, thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, smooth-hammerhead...1). I describe killer whale predation on two additional elasmobranch prey Alopias vulpinus) and smooth-hammerhead (S. zygaena...
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Sustainability of elasmobranchs caught as bycatch in a tropical prawn (shrimp) trawl fishery.
Magazine article from: Fishery Bulletin; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...prawn fishery (NPF) comprises 56 elasmobranch species (16 families). The impact...excluder devices (TEDs) in reducing elasmobranch bycatch varied greatly among species...been few evaluations of the ability of elasmobranch species to sustain population levels...
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elasmobranch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
elasmobranch , cartilaginous fish, member of the subclass Elasmobranchii of the vertebrate class Chondrichthyes (see Chordata ). This group includes sharks , skates, and rays .
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Balfour, Francis Maitland
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...he pursued intermittently, both in Italy and in Cambridge, until 1878, when he completed his outstanding monograph on elasmobranch development. He began lecturing on morphology and embryology at Trinity College in the fall term of 1873 and became director...
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Retzius, Anders Adolf
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...made a subject of medical training. During the studies for his inaugural dissertation he discovered the interrenal organ of elasmobranch fishes which is — as was shown later — homologous with the adrenal cortex of higher animals. A few years...
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sharks
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
sharks are elasmobranch fishes with cartilaginous skeletons. Elasmobranchs include about 368 species of selachians (true sharks) belonging to 30 families...
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Cestoda
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...subclasses, Cestodaria and Eucestoda. Cestodaria is a small subclass of relatively small tapeworms that are parasites to elasmobranch fishes (sharks, rays, and chimeras). The trunks of cestodarians are not segmented into proglottids. The rear of the...
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