Word: backe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Maine turned the ball over, Healey brought the ball back down to the Crimson perimeter and in a repeat performance, sank another three-pointer, putting Harvard back in the race and forcing Maine to call time out with 1:27 left on the clock...
Stealing that pretty little evergreen from a neighbor's backyard and setting it up as a Christmas tree in your living room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent...
...were torched, properties and chemicals seized, and some 11,000 people detained. Today, with the war continuing but with fewer spectacular results to show for its efforts, the Barco administration is having a harder time making its case that the struggle is worthwhile. Meanwhile, the drug Mafia has struck back with more than 200 bombings and singled out and killed at least 13 officials. By the standards of civil war, the DAS headquarters would qualify as a military target and therefore part of the price paid by a country in conflict. But by blasting out of the sky a civilian...
Having endured Barco's best shot so far, the drug chieftains appear to be rebuilding their scorched empire. Cocaine production, which in September dropped to a quarter of its usual level of about 50 tons, is back up to 75%. Says a Western diplomat: "They were knocked off balance, but never out of business. If they need to boost production, they offer people double or triple salary. Money means nothing to them...
...think that the toxic-waste mess is all the work of big bad industry. The average homeowner uses more pesticide and chemical fertilizer per acre of lawn than farmers do on the same amount of land. Cut back on these potent pollutants as well as nonbiodegradable detergents, cleansers and solvents. An attractive alternative to buying chemical fertilizer is to compost fallen leaves and lawn clippings, which now constitute 18% of all municipal solid waste...