Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stronger doses of DDD killed them off. About the same time, the lake's population of grebes began to decrease, dropping from 1,000 pairs to only 20 within one year. The baffling change was explained in 1962 by Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring. Grebes, she wrote, feed mainly on fish. The fish, in turn, eat insect larvae and zooplankton, and these foods had become saturated with the DDD dumped into Clear Lake. Thus, over a long period, the grebes accumulated lethal amounts of the long-lasting pesticide in their tissues and died by the hundreds. Even worse, because...
...original clarity. No longer troubled by DDD, the grebes are making a comeback. This year 82 young birds were born in the area, four times as many as last year. But an ecological balance is not easily restored; large game fish now have to be imported to feed on the wildly proliferating silversides. Once the game fish are established, Californians have to learn that the fishing is good at Clear Lake, and then...
...Eight minutes later, DeMichele took a feed from sophomore Bob Havern near the St. Nick's blue line and went in all alone, faking Groh to the right corner of the net, and flipping the puck into the left with a backhander...
...claims, however, that two South House cooks feed 350 students, and therefore they should receive the same pay as the male chefs...
...discrepancy arises from the fact that many East and South House students eat in North House, Mrs. Bunting said. Her statement said that four North House workers (two male chefs and two female cooks) feed 450 students, while in South and East Houses a team of four cooks feeds...