Word: pests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another nasty pest is chewing up the vineyards...
...market was always there, but in the 1980s it posed little threat to most tiger populations. In previous years China had slaughtered thousands of its tigers, claiming the animal was a pest that endangered humans. The massacre created a temporary glut of tiger bone -- more than enough to satisfy the traditional medicine market. Looking back on what happened next, Peter Jackson, chairman of the cat-specialist group at IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, in Geneva, says ruefully, "We should have seen this coming." Only in the late 1980s, he notes, after the Chinese had exhausted their...
Last year, he scheduled one meal at each housewith groups of concerned students. He decided notto continue the program this year, because "Ididn't want to be a pest...
...Business School contacted us to help them with an ongoing mouse problem," said Rod Kreimeyer, the owner of Best Pest Control...
...acts up every now and then. So far, no one's had to take FM and Crimson aside and say, "Now look. Do we have to separate you two?" It's not as if we borrow Crimson's clothes or anything. But someone has to be the pest, so we use their writers, their photographers, their cartoonists. We tug on beat reporters' sleeves and ask them to write Scrutinies. We hog the design computer's scanner. We'd tattle on The Crimson, if it was ever naughty. We even tag along when Crimson goes out with its friends...