Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Environmental Protection Agency, use of pesticides -- fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and plant-growth regulators -- has more than doubled in the past 20 years, to about 820 million lbs. annually. Farmers say the chemicals are necessary to save crops and keep food prices low; even with extensive spraying, pests destroy around a third of U.S. crops each year...
...perhaps 1% of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the U.S., and the prices are high for many budgets. It is more realistic to encourage alternative means of growing crops that rely less heavily on pesticide use. Integrated pest management, for example, releases insect predators into fields to help destroy pests and replaces regular chemical use with more judicious spraying...
...like "Ayatollah Khomeini Instills Muslim World with Hatred," even in a time of a highly publicized death threat. Death threats are something the state of Israel has lived with since its inception; the one political issue that has not divided the Arab nations until recently is the mandate to destroy Israel...
...groups claimed, and investigators now widely assume, that the explosive device that blew up Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December was also a retaliatory strike. That resulted in the death of 270 people, mostly Americans. The prevailing theory among investigators is that the plan to destroy Flight 103 originated among Iranian Revolutionary Guards and was carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command...
...Frank Lorenzo strike." Eastern's differences with its unions had long since deteriorated into a bitter and highly personal feud between the two men. While Eastern insisted that the airline could not survive without substantial wage concessions from the machinists, Bryan maintained that Lorenzo was out to destroy the carrier and sell it off for his own profit. Lorenzo's battle with the machinists, said Bryan, was "the purest case of evil vs. good...