Word: mulch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that its embassy under construction in Moscow was riddled with bugging devices, a study commissioned by the State Department recommended razing the $22 million building. Demolition cost: $160 million. No decision has been announced. But U.S. diplomats concede that the shrubbery surrounding the building has a new kind of mulch: shredded documents. That is one way to save taxpayer dollars -- and thwart bugs...
...throwaway, convenience culture helped create this mess; a real solution may require cultural change. For example, more than 20% of U.S. garbage comprises grass clippings and leaves stuffed into plastic bags and left for collection. Householders should simply leave that grass on their lawns or rake - it into a mulch pile, ignoring and thus revising the cultural demand for a golf green-neat lawn. Another cultural change would be required to get Americans to recycle 50% of their trash, as Japanese do. Cultural change is notoriously slow, but it might be speeded up in this instance by the lash...
...those who prefer not to improvise, garden stores are doing a land-office business in beneficial nematodes, antislug mulch and dozens of bio-organic plant boosters. The ranks of converts grow by the day. Actor Eddie Albert makes speeches and lobbies farmers about the pesticides. "I am rather militant about the poisoning of our food and our children," he says. "Gardening is the only way we can get clean vegetables." His advice to would-be gardeners? "Keep it simple. Then get the hell out of the way. Nature wants your garden to grow...
Pigeons, though, do the most damage to the YArd, Virlemaire said. Although "nothing stops the birds," a mixture of fertalizer, mulch and seed and water slows down the consumptions of the seed pigeons sack, he said. Another thing that helps is when Virlemaire and his crew chase away hungry flocks, he added...
...house presented itself to the world in the grand manner, but once inside, the proportions were oddly foreshortened, like a stage set. Over the basic, by now slightly worn furnishings, done in hotel-suite neutrals, lay a mulch of giftware's...A great many of these items were monogrammed, embroidered, stitched and woven by the loving hands of women whose fingers the doctor had nonetheless managed to slip through...