Word: litterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before Francis Nakano became principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles in 1982, the school was a combat zone. Teachers walked in fear of assault, gangs roamed the litter-strewn hallways, students were arrested for drug dealing, and vandals had just burned the administration building to the ground. The tough new principal changed all that. He painted the school, put in an alarm system, provided enough lunch benches for students to eat sitting down and bought some trash cans. He made each teacher responsible for the behavior of 120 students, and gang leaders were bluntly told...
Rock videos are nothing more than commercials designed to sell rock music. The product is certainly selling well. But then, so are dog food, pesticides and Kitty Litter...
Publishers have found that executives are willing to pay a fancy price for sleek and functional models. Some diaries are like almanacs, thumb-indexed to bring elusive and obscure statistics within quick reach. Others serve as miniature filing cabinets to gather up all those scraps of paper that litter a desktop. A few make esoteric fashion statements. Saks Fifth Avenue sells an Italian-made calendar covered in burgundy-colored crocodile hide. Price...
Israeli soldiers immediately began to tear away the debris with their bare hands. "A stretcher! A stretcher!" a soldier shouted. A moment later, a litter with a gray blanket covering a body was carried from the bombed-out area. "We discover a body every five minutes," said a colonel, and so it seemed. Five minutes later, another stretcher carried another body to the parking lot of the compound. Soldiers followed two German shepherds who led them to still another body buried in the ruins. "These dogs have already found seven," explained their trainer. Helicopters whipped up dust as they landed...
...long time now we have been considering the problems of rampant crime, litter and street people," said City Manager Robert W. Healy...