Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final count, however, former council secretary and Currier House representative Sterling P.A. Darling '01 edged out Hawkins and Kirkland representative Steve W. Chung '00 in a second runoff vote. In his campaign speech, Darling promised to be committed to the office...
Elections are scheduled to take place May 17, with a runoff on June 1 if no candidate receives more than half the vote. Netanyahu expects his opponents to attack his credibility and trustworthiness, which aides acknowledge are his weak spots. Still, the profound mistrust that most of the chattering class has for Netanyahu may actually win him sympathy from disaffected immigrants, Orthodox Jews and blue-collar workers who resent the Establishment...
...article "Sweet Deal" on sugar production in Florida, part of your series on corporate welfare [Nov. 23], leveled numerous false charges against all Florida sugar farmers. Far from polluting the Everglades, sugar farmers have made their runoff water twice as clean as the legal standard. The $3 billion-to-$8 billion Everglades repair cost is for replumbing the entire water system of South Florida, where the population has grown tenfold since the system's construction in the 1950s, with suburbs pushing out farmland. Sugar farmers have spent millions meeting one of the nation's toughest water-quality standards. Rather than...
...Sweet Deal" you stated that the cultivation of sugarcane is connected to environmental problems in Florida Bay. However, the summer 1996 edition of the Florida Bay News, an Everglades National Park publication, reported that "nutrients from agriculture runoff do not make it to Florida Bay." Additionally, your article incorrectly implied that the sugar industry has created much of the current need for several billion dollars of restorative measures but omitted the well-known cause for the condition of the Everglades--the massive plumbing system installed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood control and water supply...
...board of the Eyak Corp., which administered the tribe's land rights. He had grown up fishing for salmon and herring in Cordova and never identified with environmentalists. "I used to call them 'granolas,'" he says with a laugh. But he had become concerned about how runoff from logging operations was polluting the streams fish use to spawn...