Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wearing earplugs. And on weekends she keeps her windows closed. "Some mornings you can't walk outside because so many people are using their power mowers," she laments. "It's very noisy out there." Who would dispute it? From the roar of airplanes to the wail of sirens, the blast of stereos to the blare of movie sound tracks, noise is a constant part of American life. But few go to the lengths Russ does to avoid it. Noise is annoying and frustrating -- and accepted...
...freezing blast that is hitting the industry, the economic recession that began last summer represents the "wind-chill factor," says Young & Rubicam chairman Peter Georgescu. Ad spending, which rose only 2.4% last year, to $128.6 billion, is expected to increase just 3.1% this year, according to McCann-Erickson's Robert Coen, the industry's leading forecaster. In order to cut costs and ride out the slump, Madison Avenue has trimmed hundreds of professionals from its ranks during the past year -- and the / cutbacks are far from over...
...over a mile wide and could ram the earth at 65,000 km (40,000 miles) per hour. The odds of a strike within the next 50 years are probably less than one in 10,000. But whenever it does happen, the explosion could dwarf a nuclear bomb blast...
...appear to be caused, not by the fracturing of rock, but by low-frequency waves that resonate through the magma itself. While their origin remains a mystery, these vibrations may result from small surges of gas and molten rock. Large numbers of such signals preceded Mount St. Helens' 1980 blast. They also appeared before the unexpected explosion of Mexico's El Chichon in 1982, the blowup of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz in 1985 and 1987 and multiple eruptions of Alaska's Redoubt. Seismometers positioned at Pinatubo have recorded similar seismic patterns...
...conducting legal hunts of boar and other game. Then he allegedly obtained nine large cats that are on the endangered-species list, including a spotted leopard and a Bengal tiger. Some of them were probably purchased from zoos. According to the charges, hunters paid around $3,500 each to blast away at the animals; several may have been killed a few feet from their cages...