Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bottom trawlers drag large, weighted nets over the sea floor to catch shrimp and ground feeders like cod, hake, haddock, halibut and flounder. In the process, the nets haul up everything in their path, contributing heavily to the nearly 30 million tons of damaged or dying "bycatch" that fishermen toss overboard each year. Carl Safina of the National Audubon Society calls it "scorched earth fishing...
...parties default on their derivative contracts, computer screens around the world can be hit within seconds and instantly threaten other contracts. "It's like a bunch of climbers on a mountain all tied by a rope. But if one climber slips and falls into a crevasse, he can quickly drag the other climbers to their end with little chance of time for rescue," says Thomson...
...Singer (Vickilyn Reynolds) are certainly loud, but the Shubert's poorly-tuned sound system prevent most of the audience from distinguishing what exactly the lyrics to her songs are. In addition, as any Rent fan noticed last year, the elegant ivory-and-gold moulding of the newly-renovated Shubert drag attention away from the raw power of the events occuring onstage...
McCarthy said HUPD will step up security in the next few days as students move out of their dorms. He said theft is a particular threat at this time of year when students prop doors open to drag boxes out of their dorms...
...taking over the series. As years went on, the show grew increasingly outlandish. White--now well into adolescence and towering over actors he once looked up to, his high-pitched whine making him sound less like a nerd than a demented castrato--played a host of other characters: in drag, as Urkel's Mississippi cousin Myrtle; as rap-singing cousin Original Gangsta Dawg; and as a suave, Buddy Love-style alter ego named Stefan Urquelle...