Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the highest pesticide level of any U.S. mammals, on land or in water. From Portland to Morehead City, N.C., fishermen have been hauling up lobsters and crabs with gaping holes in their shells and fish with rotted fins and ulcerous lesions. Last year's oyster haul in Chesapeake Bay was the worst ever; the crop was decimated by dermo, a fungal disease, and the baffling syndrome MSX (multinucleate sphere...
Suffocating and sometimes poisonous blooms of algae -- the so-called red and brown tides -- regularly blot the nation's coastal bays and gulfs, leaving behind a trail of dying fish and contaminated mollusks and crustaceans. Patches of water that have been almost totally depleted of oxygen, known as dead zones, are proliferating. As many as 1 million fluke and flounder were killed earlier this summer when they became trapped in anoxic water in New Jersey's Raritan Bay. Another huge dead zone, 300 miles long and ten miles wide, is adrift in the Gulf of Mexico...
...fireworks in your weekend plans? Not to worry--catch the baroque orchestra, Banchetto Musicale's Royal Fireworks Concert at Marina Bay in North Quincy at 8 p.m. The outdoor program's concert includes Handel's "Water Music" and "Royal Fireworks Music", featuring a new fire-works display choreographed to music. Tickets are $20 or $25 for table seats. Rain date: July 31. Telephone...
After eight years of record budget deficits, America needs a "frugal man" in the White House, the Bay State governor said. Mike Dukakis has balanced nine state budgets and will work tirelessly to bring down the deficit...
...associations) in Texas played a crucial role in reviving the moribund shrimping industry in the Gulf of Mexico by financing the purchase of dozens of boats. An estimated $10 million in Korean keh (contracts) has financed the purchase of houses, restaurants and small grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. "This is Horatio Alger all over," says David W. Engstrom, a research associate at the University of Chicago who studies immigrant merchants. Thanks to loan clubs, he adds, "most of these people open their businesses in three to four months after arriving here...