Word: litterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't take more than a few peeks to realize there's more to this crowd than roughness. The striking punks aren't trying to threaten--rather, their severe looks and loud music are a desperate effort to impress the hurried passersby, to get more attention that the litter skittering past their army boots...
Vermont spent 56 fewer work hours, and 31 percent fewer dollars on litter pick-up after the passage of a bottle bill. After two years with a bottle bill. Oregon litter clean-up bills dropped by an estimated $632,000 per year. Park Managers in Detroit estimate the year's savings after implementation of a bottle bill at $300,000 lows reported a 90 percent reduction of litter in state parks. Bottle bills in two states in which their effect was measured saved enough energy in one. Oregon, to supply house heating needs of 50,000 people...
Some managers say that they support the legislation, maintaining that the inconveniences they suffer area a worthy price to pay for the cuts in litter and the resource savings. They often complain, however, because they feel that a loophole in the law lets distributors get away with disposing the used containers, rather than recycling them...
...political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society. Indeed, there are moments today-amid outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy-when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, Riesman says, the ethic...
...size achieved by each mouse was dependent on how many copies of the rat gene it happened, by chance, to have received. One mouse with 20 copies had 800 times the normal level of growth hormone in its blood. It grew to be almost twice the size of litter mates that had no copies of the rat gene...