Word: litters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the moviemakers' point of view, one great advantage of animal flicks is the cheapness of casting; the average cost of the pictures is only about $1,000,000. "Since it takes only 21 days for a rat to have a litter of ten to twelve, we bought a dozen and left it up to them," says Moe Di Sesso, the trainer for Willard and Ben. By the time the company "of The Night of the Lepus arrived on location in Arizona, its rabbit contingent had increased by more than 10% and was about to rise again...
...developed nations might cause G.N.P. growth to slow, though not stop, since stethoscopes use less metal than refrigerators do. For that very reason, this program would conserve resources and minimize pollution, and it could result in a truer as well as a cleaner kind of economic growth. Litter-free streets, safer trains, better medical care and increased protection against muggings might well increase human well-being more than a higher output of cars, chemicals and electric can openers. Unemployment would not rise; fewer people would work in basic industries, but more people would find jobs as teachers, park attendants...
...their downtown shops and come home for lunch and a nap. Now the street belongs to the dead and wounded. It looks like a vast denuded forest: dozens of steel corner posts mark the boundaries of burned-out houses. Sheets of rusted tin, the roofs of demolished houses, litter the ground...
...residents of Rio de Janeiro are enormously fond of their splendid Copacabana beach. So are the 25,000 dogs that live in the area and litter it with some 21 tons of excrement a day. After pondering the complaints of barefoot beach strollers, Copacabana officials offered a solution of sorts: a series of installations named the "Pipi...
...technicians have gone to extreme lengths to protect the environment, once even rigging a costly twist in pipes leading from a chemical plant in order to save several trees. One of Land's personal embarrassments-until the "garbage-free" SX-70 film was designed-was the amount of litter that his product created...