Word: littering
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...times past, putting up with litter, noxious fumes and bad manners seemed an acceptable price to pay for the revenue tourism brought in and the jobs it created. A big business it is too. In Britain the tourist industry contributed $39 billion to the economy last year. Italy took in $21 billion. France, the world's second most favored destination after the U.S., collected $17.7 billion from tourism, more than it earned from agriculture or arms. For poorer countries like Greece, tourism is the main source of foreign exchange, so a drop in the number of visitors, which is feared...
According to the first approach, universities should be taxed only as much as the amount of services they receive from the city without remuneration, such as fire protection, sewer maintenance, litter removal and snow removal...
Leder says the female would give birth to a litter of mice, some of whom will have taken up that gene...
...first-name basis with many of the area's 700 residents and learn what neighborhood problems concerned them most. Those conversations led him to recognize, he says, "that the good people far outnumbered the bad." Meanwhile, he organized a volunteer community cleanup, which filled 30 Dumpsters with litter; arranged federal funding for floral plantings; and even held a contest to choose a name for the neighborhood: Sparrow Estates...
...hundreds of orange fireballs roar like dragons, blasting sulfurous clouds high into the air. Soot falls like gritty snowflakes, streaking windshields and staining clothes. From the overcast skies drips a greasy black rain, while sheets of gooey oil slap against a polluted shore. Burned-out hulks of twisted metal litter a landscape pockmarked by bomb craters, land mines and shallow graves scraped in the sand...