Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHETHER A BIT TOO effected by their surroundings or touched by the central Florida heat, the Democratic Party chieftains who met at Walt Disney World recently indulged themselves in a fantasy that all the world's fairy dust couldn't make credible...
That much of the damage already done to the earth can not be undone is obvious in Berger's accounts of surface mine reclamation--especially in his description of the radioactive gases and dust and groundwater spreading from thousands of abandoned uranium mines in the Southwest. He finds more hope for real rejuvenation where people reclaim land from overuse and physical abuse rather than industrial devastation...
...delicate tint of mauve and he holds theatrical court from a cluster of antique-looking furniture. Subjects covered range from the excesses of Eva Peron to the finer, eccentric points of domestic science ("never sweep the place where you live, because after the first four years the dust doesn't get any worse...
...when Rogerson arrived with Tubby's three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense this season, there was bound to be a confrontation...
Recycling systems also show promise. Companies in California, for example, found that "pickling acid," which is needed in metal-processing plants to remove scale, could be mixed with zinc sulfate and used as a soil additive in citrus orchards, or mixed with air-filtered dust from scrap-steel plants to permit profitable recovery of zinc-iron compounds. Others have found that spent fluid from the manufacture of semiconductors could be used to refine old crankcase oil, helping to eliminate two disposal problems for the price...