Word: despoilation
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...economy and hundreds of billions of dollars of debt are not good reasons to begin plundering the resources in our own backyard, especially when plundering them won’t even fix the problem. Is our need for oil really so great that we should despoil one of our nation’s natural treasures? No, not when we could be more actively pursuing alternative fuels and practicing conservation. There are as many better options that don’t include drilling to solving the current oil crisis as there are migratory birds roosting in the Western Arctic Reserve. It?...
...accidents / Waiting to happen,” he was singing about all of us there, and we all knew it. When Yorke went ballistic, gyrating around in the stage in a demented head-shaking, knees-up hoedown, we all leapt with him. We the audience were careful not to despoil our sonic umbilical cord by cheering too loudly during songs and were rewarded with a PA that was clearer and crisper than most club shows...
...nature." Her worry now is that people are altering the ocean. If you want to eat fish, grow them, she argues, offering support for the burgeoning aquaculture industry--in which such delicacies as salmon and trout are raised in aquatic pens--as long as the pens themselves do not despoil the coastline...
February 10: My parents arrived in Cambridge with a team of deprogramming experts. They tried to convince me that TETRIS is a communist plot to despoil the minds of American youth. I responded that the Cold War is over, and showed them my new tatoo of Mikhail Gorbachev...
...wrote an explanatory letter to his students: "I've known the place was unsafe for 11 years...I talked to people, they agreed it was unsafe, but after all, if the building met code when it was built, and it's now a registered national landmark, doing anything would despoil the work of the Master. Not to mention cost a lot of money...