Word: littering
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Finally, last week a compromise was reached after endless negotiations that left the office of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Senate floor manager for the funding bill, strewn with litter. The end was in sight. The Democratic House completed its chores, and most of its members scurried out of Washington. The Republican Senate convened for the final formalities, including an affectionate farewell tribute to retiring Majority Leader Howard Baker. All that remained was to raise the national debt ceiling by $251 billion, to $1.824 trillion, since the old limit would otherwise be surpassed. But then Democratic Senators balked. Long berated...
...said there was a steady deluge of objects that fell down between the seats-flags, camera caps, paper cups, hats, seat cushions-tumbling down to the litter at ground level. I asked what some of the more interesting objects had been. I had my notebook...
...climbed back up to my seat. I told Naber I thought I was on to something. I described the litter. He said it was the most inconsequential thing he had heard of yet, but he would keep his eyes open. "I'm good at this sort of thing," he said. He had once discovered $4.79 in the drain of his high school swimming pool...
...three miles beyond what was once the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, cottonwood and birch trees stand in 9 ft. of brackish water, their trunks burned and their branches leafless. Dead wood and decaying, bloated carp litter the shore. Roads are flooded out, towers for power lines sit in muddy pools, and farther south, the famed Saltair resort with its Moorish-style gold domes is shut down...
...many places there is no food to be had at any price. Says Dr. Kate Gingell, a British physician at a hospital in the northern province of Tete: "Money is useless here. You can't buy food that isn't there. So you see people scrabbling through litter for food, and you see people literally dropping dead in the street. People come to die on my veranda." One man told how he and his family hiked for more than a week to get to Zimbabwe from Tete. "There is nothing there," he said of his home territory...