Word: litters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rusting and broken pipelines and stretches of barbed wire litter the sand around the deserted town of Ras Sudr, once a dusty bedroom community for Egyptian and foreign workers at the nearby oilfields. The wells of Ras Sudr produce only 3,000 bbl. of crude a day−a trickle by Middle Eastern standards and only a fraction of the 75,000 bbl. daily pumped out of Abu Rudeis. But the desolate, cactus-covered patch of desert with its huddle of workers' decaying cottages has a considerable symbolic importance. Under the second Sinai accord worked out last summer...
...retriever, after finishing his golf game last week. With First Lady Betty Ford and Daughter Susan in attendance, the 19-month-old family dog gave birth to five male and four female puppies. "She's a good mother," pronounced the President, and then promised one member of the litter to Michigan's Leader Dog School for the Blind and a second to White House Photographer David Kennerly. Although it was a big day for the country's First Dog, the event was fairly routine for Misty's Sungold Lad, champion retriever from Oregon and acknowledged father...
...items-stamped "1776 Bicentennial 1976." The kit is called, appropriately, "Profit-Builder No. 1-W." Baskin-Robbins sells "Red, White 'n Blueberry" ice cream cones; a Boston massage parlor offers a Bicentennial special (the regular-er, services for a 10% discount); and Toy-Tex Novelty Co. provides Bicentennial litter bags with Betsy Ross's flag stamped on them...
...technology at Brunei University, "we are adding carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The bags will act as a carbon source for soil bacteria, breaking down into humus and carbon dioxide." Griffin's process, which can be used for most plastic products, has a powerful appeal beyond reducing long-lived litter. Because starch costs much less than polymer plastics, the process saves money -up to $4.50 per 1,000 bags right...
Garish Signs. Faced with growing neighborhood opposition, the franchisers have launched vigorous campaigns to better their image. In Chicago, Burger King assigns crews to pick up all litter within two blocks of its outlets. Most chains will agree with community demands to remove their garish outdoor signs or scale down their golden arches and revolving buckets so that, as a McDonald's official says, "we can blend in with the local decor...