Word: brush
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...some extent, the visit was part of a broad tactical maneuver by the Communist regime of János Kádár. On the brink of next month's talks on the Helsinki accord, Hungary is eager to brush up its image and counteract complaints about church restrictions from both Hungarian and U.S. Christians. In fact, Hungary probably has the most liberal church policy among Warsaw Pact countries. Sunday schools and youth retreats are permitted. Bibles, though expensive, are available. Even so, open evangelism and freedom of church publication in the Western sense are unknown. Evangelical Christians...
What was striking about the Carter proposals was their familiarity. In philosophy, they represent a return to the broad-brush, stockpiling farm-management policies introduced more than four decades ago. These policies were abandoned by Richard Nixon's aggressive, foot-in-mouth Agriculture Secretary, Earl Butz, a dedicated free marketeer. Butz's emphasis on an all-out export drive for farm products yielded spectacular results, including a threefold increase in the domestic price of wheat-but that was largely the result of bad harvests in China and the Soviet Union. One form of Government intervention that even Butz...
...approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser: "We are going back to the basic malariology abandoned in the 1950s with the advent of the broad-brush chemical approach." The great hope, he says, is for an antimalarial vaccine. But that, he concedes, is at least a decade away...
Authorities have sent in 4,856 fire fighters, toting "Pulaskis"-a combination hoe and ax-and "McClouds"-a wide rake. On twelve-hour shifts, the crews cut brush and trees with hand tools and chain saws to bar the approaching blaze. Most find the service exhilarating. Said one woman from Santa Cruz: "It's the most exciting thing anyone...
...South last week, soaking parched reservoirs, saving some thirsty crops and providing water for swimming pools and lawn sprinklers -but no such fortune befell the West and Southwest. There drought stubbornly persisted like a biblical plague, withering corn and wheat, drying up horse and cattle water holes, kindling brush and forest fires (including some 400 in California), and cutting back on water and energy supplies for about 30 million Americans...