Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peggy, Demian, Elaine, Les and Chuck step on their colts. The horses jump and stop and run into one another like bumper cars, but no one gets hurt. Later the riders are allowed to use halter ropes. They pull their horses' heads around and rub them. "The softness comes through the horse's mind, goes through the body to the feet and back up from there," Ray says...
Libya plans to irrigate nearly half a million acres of land with the water. Although irrigation may initially produce bumper crops, some scientists say persistent intensive irrigation will release salts in the soil, leading to such a high level of salinity that agriculture in the area may be threatened. "Irrigation schemes around the world don't have a good track record," says Tony Debney of the Wallingford institute. In California, he notes, large tracts of land have become barren because of long-term irrigation...
...television advertisement for Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy demonstrates his affinity for his state's dairy-farming community by going directly to the source. The commercial shows the Senator, accompanied by two farmers, pasting Leahy bumper stickers on the sides of some contented cows. To make the point that Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson has broken a number of promises, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, not normally known as a barrel of laughs, has been showcasing an ad that features a pair of legs doing a soft- shoe. The voice-over: "When it comes to song and dance, nobody's better than...
Conservationists have been lobbying for measures to protect the animals since the early 1970s, when they distributed bumper stickers reading WOULD YOU KILL FLIPPER FOR A TUNA SANDWICH? In 1972, when 304,000 dolphins were lost to the nets, Congress passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which specified that dolphin kills by commercial fishermen were to be reduced in theory to "insignificant levels approaching a zero mortality." Further legislation, passed in 1984, fixed a numerical limit on the dolphins that could be killed by the U.S. tuna fleet: 20,500 dolphins a year...
Cars near Porter Square have been sporting bumper stickers for the past three weeks. They say, "Save Cambridge--Stop Wasserman...