Word: fish
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Cutlass and sword are passe. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers and even antitank guns. Their easiest prey is the flotilla of fishing trawlers, ferries and small trading boats that ply the island waters. The booty includes everything from cargoes of fish to duty-free goods being trafficked in a centuries-old barter trade between East Malaysia and the Philippine island of Mindanao. "The greed of the pirates is unbelievable," says a Malaysian official. One ruthless pirate tradition of yore prevails: walking the plank...
Lester Brown, the president of Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based environmental research group, believes that the world's life-supporting resources, notably soil, grasslands, forest and fish, are either deteriorating or being depleted, and that these factors inevitably will lead to less growth and more inflation...
...leather belt ("Why pay a buck for a bonded belt that will become brittle and broken?"); a still-to-be-dickered price for a potbellied-stove door ("When you need it, you need it"); $1.75 for a goldfish ("You get the bowl, you get the sand, you get the fish, you get two weeks' supply of fish food"). Says Steve Sobechko, who owns the Englishtown market: "It's a great recycling place...
...about 2,000 of the marchers stayed to lobby House Judiciary Committee members, who must first approve the extension bill before it can be sent to the House floor for action. Many of them found it a frustrating experience. When 100 ERA supporters confronted New York Republican Hamilton Fish Jr., for instance, he said he had to do more research on whether extending the deadline would be constitutional. He added: "I have to put the Constitution of the United States ahead of any group's goals." Replied Carol Sharnoff of Long Island, N.Y.: "I'm outraged by what...
...bluntness of a sledgehammer in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily, which allowed police to raid newsrooms without warning to search for evidence of crimes committed by others. Although the court ruled that police must first obtain warrants, many commentators feared that local magistrates would not hesitate to let police fish through reporters' desks and notebooks, scaring off sources from confiding in the press...