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...they often were, the Knesses built houses. They farmed and did some landscaping. They installed toilets and dug septic tanks. They fixed almost any machine that needed fixing. Up through the mid-1960s sales stayed consistently mediocre. Then the Federal Government began restricting the use of poisons for pest control around food. Emerson looked down from the heavens and smiled. A decade ago, the Kness Manufacturing Co. had four employees who with the owners managed a daily output of 60 traps. Now 28 workers turn out 2,500 mousetraps...
This sex strategy has been touted as a promising approach in pest control. But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge. For Dutch Entomologist CJ. Persoons, the breakthrough came with new techniques for separating chemicals...
Ebright, a Currier House resident concentrating in Biology, said yesterday the essay grew out of "seven years of research in which I have discovered a previously unknown insect growth factor." He added. "This could possibly be used to develop a method of pest control without the harmful effects...
...secretary makes them. It is insufferable one-upmanship to have a secretary chirp, "Please hold for Mr...." Baldrige offers a fairly quaint line for use in getting rid of a pest on the phone: "My staff informs me an emergency call is waiting for me on the other line. Please forgive me, and put in writing the rest of your thoughts." She is less than enthusiastic about recorded music being piped in to entertain a caller who is put on hold...
...home, Wolfe practices what he preaches: he gave up cigarettes eight years ago, and avoids saccharine-sweetened drinks and processed foods. Like Nader, he avoids the party circuit. Nevertheless, he has become an accepted part of the Washington scene, not so much a noisome pest as a comforting, if disquieting, presence. Even FDA Commissioner Kennedy says of his nemesis: "If we didn't have Wolfe around, our society would be poorer...