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That complacency proved costly. The spraying slowdown allowed the mosquitoes to thrive and multiply again. Quinine, used to treat malaria, is in short supply in some areas; India has not encouraged cultivation of the Cinchona trees from whose bark the drug is obtained (the malaria parasite is showing a rising resistance to the drug chloroquine, a synthetic substitute for quinine). Furthermore, rising petroleum prices have sent the costs of insecticides soaring, placing another burden on the shaky economics of the region. DDT, which cost India about $500 per ton in 1974, now costs...
...Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.) Other memories: we are all working in the garden. Someone holds up a piece of our all-too-tenacious ivy and cries "Watch out Fred, here it comes again!" My dog announces his wish to re-enter the house. "I hear a seal bark," my father says. Friends of mine have told the tale of family dinners wherein the conversation consisted of just one cartoon caption after another--punctuated, always, by uncontrollable laughter...
...managed to limit, but not reverse, the growth of state government; he boasts of vetoing 194 items of legislation that would have cost Californians billions of dollars. But many liberals share the view of Dean McHenry, chancellor emeritus of the University of California at Santa Cruz, that "his bark proved worse than his bite." Even Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, a longtime foe who was the defeated Democratic candidate for Governor in 1970, grudgingly admits, "As a Governor, Reagan was better than most Democrats would concede, though not nearly as good as most Republicans like to think...
...this little game he liked to play. He would call in one of his more uptight, straightlaced Ivy-League advisors, like Douglas Dillon, and then would conduct a perfectly normal discussion of some current issue--while LBJ sat on the toilet. LBJ enjoyed watching his advisor squirm and would bark something like "What's the matter with you, boy?" if the aide's discomfort became too obvious...
...manner of an earlier master, Ogata Kōrin, who had been dead for almost a century. But his own paintings were much less formalized than Kōrin's. Hōitsu was an exquisite observer of small events: a patch of lichen on the pale bark of a branch, rendered with a diffused blot of malachite green; the lively flutter of peony leaves, each surrounded, with a kind of inlaid distinctness, by a barely noticeable fringe of untouched background...