Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy is not so strange as it sounds; the Environmental Protection Agency has used it since the 1970s to curb pollution in selected cities. Now President George Bush has made the trading of pollution rights the centerpiece of his plan to combat acid rain across the U.S. His proposal has attracted an ideologically diverse band of supporters, from conservative economists, who despise standard types of Government regulations, to environment-minded legislators, who are ready for a fresh approach to pollution control. Says Senator Timothy Wirth, a Colorado Democrat: "We're not going to be able to make a dent...
That's why we won't be paying that much attention to Sunday's game at the Superdome. Come on, John Elway vs. Joe Montana? Who really cares? Besides, I (Julio) can't stand either team. Elway looks like Tom Cruise on acid. Even though I (Jen) think Jim Kelly is the greatest quarterback in the history of Western civilization (yeah, right, Julio says), Montana is kind of cute...
...city where the uprising against Nicolae Ceausescu first bubbled up, a young woman stood in a field, rocking back and forth, crying softly. "Bloody, oh, how bloody," she crooned over the corpse of an old man. His hands had been cut off, his body disfigured by boiling water and acid. He had been her father...