Word: compound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...once. News from the Ukraine showed men and equipment at work in the fields at night, an indication of the pressure caused by multiple harvesting. Says a Western analyst in Moscow: "The Soviets just don't have enough machinery to handle the job." Climatic vagaries have been compounded by perennial Soviet agricultural mismanagement. Incentives to collective farmers to increase production still appear to be lacking. Gaping holes between rows of wheat and other crops are evidence of farmers' disinclination to make every inch of land count. To compound the problem, thievery is widespread. Says one Western agricultural expert...
...same time, this is Harvard, you know, and most people here have more chance of being all-state in poetry than punting. There are hundreds of people here who think the Multiflex is a destabilized carbon compound. So sports, not surprisingly, is not what you would call a big part of their lives...
...decades, the most widely used poison was a chemical known as Compound 1080. In 1972, however, the Environmental Protection Agency prohibited its use on the grounds that the chemical was not only decimating the coyote population but also destroying untold numbers of dogs, foxes, birds and other animals that happened to eat the tainted meat. Livestock herders, who expect that the Reagan Administration may be less concerned about those environmental considerations than its predecessors, are now asking the EPA to reverse the ban on Compound...
...money involved is not astronomical, both environmentalists and businessmen are closely watching the case for an early sign of Administration policy. Reagan officials have been promising that the new Washington rule makers will consider both the costs and benefits of regulations in deciding issues like the outlawing of Compound 1080. The battle concerning a coyote poison is thus turning into a conflict between businessmen and environmentalists over the role of Government regulation...
...mystical powers of "animal arousal." Now Jovan is spending up to $6 million on provocative TV ads to promote Andron, a fragrance that it contends is "capable of triggering an intense magnetic reaction" in men and women alike. The perfume's magic love potion? Alpha androstenol, a synthetic compound that is chemically the same as a substance found in human perspiration...