Word: blights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crops. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is convinced that the decline of diversity is one of the greatest threats facing world agriculture. "We may see a significant number of crops become functionally extinct," he says, "enjoying bumper crops until one day the hammer falls in the form of a blight they cannot handle...
Opponents claimed that Z would turn into an environmental blight and a gigantic eyesore on 70 acres of East Cambridge land. Traffic, pollution and noise, they said, would be the result...
...deceive ourselves into viewing the issue as a "Black problem." Confederate flags, swastikas and all other hate symbols are an embarrassment and a blight on the face of our entire community. Slavery was not merely the oppression of Blacks; it was a systematic attempt at the degradation of humanity...
...Urban Blight with Stylie at the Paradise...
...signal his rehabilitation, but the link between sports and steroids is as pervasive today as before his ignominious fall. And by all accounts, steroid users are getting younger: a 1990 federal study says 250,000 adolescents use the drugs. Even athletes who have never used steroids suffer from the blight of performance drugs, coming under suspicion each time they score a personal best or put on muscle...