Word: pining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge resident reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that an unknown person poured sugar into the gas tank of his car when it was parked along Pine and Magazine Sts. A mechanic says the car has been damaged...
...When finger is down, we get hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of complaints," he said. "When there's problem with pine, nobody notices...
...survey also reported that about 88.5 percent of respondents use Pine as their e-mail system of choice...
...clever science isn't necessarily popular science, and Terminator has made a lot of enemies, particularly in the developing world. The USDA and Delta and Pine Land have filed Terminator patent applications in dozens of countries. In many of those countries farmers can't afford to buy top-of-the-line seeds every year and must rely on saving a portion of each crop in order to plant their fields the following year. Monsanto insists that weak patent protection in many of these countries makes a technology like Terminator especially important. But that argument carries little weight in parts...
...also developed plants with a built-in toxin that is harmless to humans but lethal to insects. If farmers in the developing world use these muscled-up crops--even with Terminator genes--their harvests might increase enough to cover the cost of buying seeds each spring. Says Delta and Pine Land vice president Harry Collins: "It will help them become more production-oriented rather than remaining subsistence farmers...