Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trees cause pollution, cut back on environmental protection. After declaring in his campaign, "I am an environmentalist," Bush has appointed a respected conservationist to head the EPA; called for the elimination of chlorofluorocarbons, which harm the ozone layer; promised action on a clean- air package and restrictions on acid rain; and proposed adding a mile per gallon to federal mileage standards for motor vehicles...
Fortunately, nature itself, in fits and starts, seemed to be coming to the rescue. Four days of rain and snowstorms last week helped break up the floating oil and cleanse a number of shores. Moreover, the coming of the long / spring and summer thaw is sure to create a rush of rivulets and waterfalls that will help wash off the shoreline. Observed John Robinson, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "In the end, nature has to do this...
...village of Cordova, 500 fishermen and townspeople stood at the waterfront in a driving rain and staged a "requiem" for Prince William Sound. State environment commissioner Kelso, on hand to address the group, tried to ease the sense of gloom. He recounted to the throng that on a recent inspection trip to Knight Island he had seen a great pod of whales offshore. There were as many as 40, so close that he could hear the sound of their exhalations when they surfaced and the slap of their flukes when they dived once more. Seeing how the huge sea mammals...
When "Dug"--the name Ari wrote in his notepad for the xerox store proprietor--suggested building higher smokestacks to alleviate the problem of acid rain, Ari knew exactly what he meant. "That way the pollution would go into outer space." But then the potential side effects began to disturb Ari. "It would pollute the Martians...
...After rain forced the participants to move the proceedings indoors, the Hillel sponsored a showing of the film Night and Fog, a documentary describing what Allied soldiers found when they entered the concentration camp Auschwitz, Savett said...