Word: ditching
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...Ditch the yacht for a rowboat...
...stimulate the growth of riverine forests, flush out wetlands and rejuvenate them with fertile silt. Deprived of high-water surges, wetlands quickly die. In the 1960s, for example, flood-control canals transformed South Florida's wild Kissimmee River from a sinuous network of oxbows and tributaries into a stagnant ditch. The disastrous result: nearly 18,200 hectares (45,000 acres) of prime wetlands disappeared. Waterfowl and fish populations plummeted. Last year, in a startling about-face, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District proposed to unleash the Kissimmee by filling...
...deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture of nostalgic regret and last-ditch defiance...
...would wake up in cold sweats screaming his name. This went on twice a week for three months. It was just awful. We killed him in a candy store, and I helped to drag his body out, threw him on a road in Jersey and left him in a ditch with a blanket wrapped around him. I seen his face when I turned the car around...
Then there's the last-ditch option: going back home to Mom and Dad. This generation hasn't been afraid to do so -- Census reports show 75% of males 18 to 24 years old still live at home. But people mostly want to be on their own around that age. "All year long I swore that whatever I did, I wouldn't be living at home," says Natasha Pustilnik, 21, a Vassar College senior. Guess where she'll be this summer. "It's enormously disappointing," says the jobless Russian major...