Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infected. One surprising result: many of those working in the garment district were found to have antibodies against the bacterium now known to cause the disease, indicating that they had been infected-without suffering any apparent symptoms-some time ago. This, in turn, suggested that the Legionnaires' bug had been around the district for a while. Hundreds of air and water samples were also checked for presence of the elusive bacteria. All tests proved negative, and the program has now been discontinued...
...California, the lygus bug invaded cotton fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Worried farmers attacked with insecticides, but the spray killed the natural predators of bollworms. Now the lygus bug is fading, while the bollworm is on the march. University of California at Berkeley Entomologist Robert van den Bosch blames "insecticide salesmen hustling their products" and the "stupidity" of an undiscriminating use of pesticides for aggravating the problem...
Scientists find a lair for the Legionnaires' disease bug...
...found in water from an air conditioning cooling tower atop the Indiana University Memorial Union Hotel, where many of the victims had stayed, as well as in a nearby creek. The key to the discovery: two new culture media specifically designed to foster laboratory growth of the bug, which ordinarily multiplies so slowly that it is obscured by other bacteria...
Once on the court, however, he wrote a ringing decision striking down Nixon's claim that the Government did not need a court order to bug suspected domestic security risks. Similarly, Powell once approvingly told the American Bar Association that the Supreme Court seemed to be moving away from usurping the authority of the Legislative Branch. But on the bench, he voted with the majority in a decision that not only legalized abortions but set forth unusually detailed guidelines on them...