Word: dripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history of water development in the West, observes that subsidized water is "so cheap the farmers can't afford to conserve it." Ten miles west of Phoenix, for example, Mike Duncan, 38, would have to spend considerably more to irrigate his cotton if he were to use water-saving drip tubes. "If I farmed in the Coolidge area, where water is $80 an acre-foot," Duncan says, "I'd most seriously look at using drip irrigation." Instead, Duncan gets water at the federally subsidized rate of $9 an acre-foot. Better to keep pouring it on the field...
Already, farmers have proved they are able to profit in some districts where unsubsidized irrigation costs as much as $75. They shift to crops that use less water, require heavy capital investment and bring a higher price: orchard fruits and nuts, specialty vegetables, safflower. They invest in drip irrigation and other water-saving technologies, and, where possible, water their land with inexpensive sewage effluent...
...Whew, this drip gas smells...
...more substantial jurist might have better withstood the slow drip of corrosive revelations about his earlier life. But so little was known about Ginsburg that it was easy for minor matters to grow into major questions about his fitness to serve. His admission that he smoked pot should not have been an automatic disqualification. If it were, the ranks of Government might be devastated. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has reported that more than 23% of the adult population has used marijuana, including a staggering 64% of those ages 18 to 25. Indeed, two Democratic presidential candidates, Albert Gore...
...solid professional with a patient wife and numerous lively progeny. Glover brings a weary gravity -- no cute stuff permitted -- to his relationship with his flock and with his new partner. The latter may have a death wish, but Murtaugh has a strong life wish, and the patience to drip it slowly into Riggs' sensibility...