Word: devourer
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...will win Daniel Day-Lewis the Best Actor award over everybody's favorite movie star (Clooney). DDL's performance is so manic, so intense, and he slips so deeply into his roles, that Academy members will be afraid to vote against him. He might come to their homes and devour their young...
...environmental policy; bad water, energy, land and health policy; and bad foreign policy to boot. At a time when farm incomes are at an all-time high, the legislation would perpetuate a system that redistributes billions of dollars from taxpayers to wealthy farmers, particularly the huge industrial operators who devour the most water and fossil fuels, spew the most pesticides, erode the most soil, grow the most fattening foods, and use their handouts to buy out smaller farmers and depopulate rural America. Only 1% of Americans are farmers, and the largest 5% of those farmers vacuum up three-fourths...
...masonry homes with metal framing do not burn. Wood is the culprit - the fuel for fire. Building-permit rules should disallow the use of wood in all new construction. Communities in fire-prone areas should also think about stocking forested and undeveloped lands with goats. These creatures could devour the underbrush that dries and fuels firestorms. Firefighters could better spend their time tending the goats than periodically risking their lives on uncontrolled fires. The goats could become part of the firefighters' arsenal, as important as trucks, hoses and protective gear. Incentives from insurance companies could help defray the added costs...
...masonry homes with metal framing do not burn. Wood is the culprit - the fuel for fire. Building-permit rules should disallow the use of wood in all new construction. Communities in fire-prone areas should also think about stocking forested and undeveloped lands with goats. These creatures could devour the underbrush that dries and fuels firestorms. Firefighters could better spend their time tending the goats than periodically risking their lives on uncontrolled fires. The goats could become part of the firefighters' arsenal, as important as trucks, hoses and protective gear. Incentives from insurance companies could help defray the added costs...
...masonry homes with metal framing do not burn. Wood is the culprit - the fuel for fire. Building-permit rules should disallow the use of wood in all new construction. Communities in fire-prone areas should also think about stocking forested and undeveloped lands with goats. These creatures could devour the underbrush that dries and fuels firestorms. Firefighters could better spend their time tending the goats than periodically risking their lives on uncontrolled fires. The goats could become part of the firefighters' arsenal, as important as trucks, hoses and protective gear. As Californians rebuild, incentives from insurance companies could help defray...