Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often begins with wheezing and shortness of breath. Eventually it can lead to death. Byssinosis (nicknamed "brown lung" disease) is caused primarily by cotton dust that fills the air in textile plants. As many as 150,000 employed and retired cotton-mill workers may suffer from some form of the ailment. In the cotton-mill country of the South, a sardonic slogan addressed to consumers is "Blue jeans for you, brown lung...
Since it won its war for existence in 1948, Israel has scored a number of brilliant military successes, and it clearly added to that number last week. But while feats of arms have brought survival they have not brought peace. As the dust settled in the Iraqi desert and the fires guttered out in the smashed nuclear reactor in Tammuz, Israel was not about to be abandoned by its friends, especially the U.S. Yet there was a growing international feeling that the embattled nation must try harder to make an accommodation with its Arab neighbors if it is ever...
...potentially lucrative, foray. Although his decision seemed to satisfy the majority of the University community and especially the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the flurry of activity leading up to Bok's thumbs-down stirred up a whirlwind of misunderstanding, resentment and other negative feelings. Six months later, the dust has yet to settle...
...Trout, coming in off the bench. Trout led the squad in rebounds, while Carrabino placed second to all-Ivy swingman Donald Fleming in the scoring department. Speaking of the old and new of Harvard basketball, the IAB--which is nearly as old as Crimson superfan Henry Zimmerman--bit the dust at the end of the season. The hoopsters will move into a spanking new home in renovated Briggs Cage next year...
...sheep a year, and sheepmen are clamoring for resumption of open chemical warfare. The U.S. Department of the Interior, meanwhile, has been experimenting with more specific anticoyote tactics. In one method, sheep are outfitted with a poison-filled collar; if a coyote takes a bite, it soon bites the dust. Another device, the so-called M-44, involves a spring-loaded tube covered with bait and planted in the ground. When a coyote begins tugging at the bait, the device fires a lethal dose of cyanide into its mouth. In an attempt at aversion therapy, Government-funded scientists have even...