Word: pest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, environmental groups protested the EPA move. Reason: distributors and pest-control companies can still sell or use the two-month supply of the pesticide they have in stock. Snapped Cynthia Wilson, director of the Washington-based Friends of the Earth: "It's a travesty...
...Florida Governor Bob Martinez thought he had discovered that politician's dream, a painless tax increase. Last April 23 he signed a law that extended the reach of the state's 5% sales tax to cover everything from legal services to pest control to credit collection. The new levies were intended to raise about $700 million a year, including some $100 million from a tax on advertisers, both in state and out. But while the Governor's constituents have greeted the measures with passive acceptance, Martinez has run into a wave of prickly Madison Avenue opposition that has turned...
Perhaps because it enhances privacy, call blocking is one of the more popular CLASS features. By punching a simple code into the phone, the user can program this service, which rejects calls from certain local numbers. To avoid having to talk to that former boyfriend or that pest of a salesman, the owner can direct the phone to generate a recorded message -- some version of "I'm sorry, the party you have dialed is not accepting your call at this time" -- whenever someone on the list tries to get through. Jeffrey Lipman, 35, a pharmacist in Harrisburg, Pa., has combined...
...rooming group first suspected they had a pest just after Thanksgiving when Kevin J. Riordan '90 and William Pao '90 discovered a rat hole in their bedroom...
...lack of vigilance that these formidable bugs have slipped across the border. The USDA employs 1,000 inspectors at 85 ports of entry nationwide. At J.F.K. ten officials examine as many as 2,000 crates of flowers, vegetables, seeds and cuttings every day and pass any pests they find to an insect identifier, a botanist and a plant pathologist for cataloging. An additional 60 inspectors are assigned to the airport's five international- arrivals areas, where they watch for illegal agricultural material in the bags of passengers filing through Customs. But increased travel and shipping have strained these resources...