Word: runoff
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...presidency to Yushchenko in December 2004, Yanukovych and PR have often threatened get it back through an early presidential election. But now the specter of such an election arises instead from an unexpected corner: that of the ever-ambitious Tymoshenko feeling that she would surely carry it in the runoff. Fighting for the presidency - and restoring the functions it was forced to cede to the Rada in 2005 - might prove more alluring to her than holding a premiership stripped of control over key positions and issues...
...problems. Disease outbreaks in concentrated animal populations can be devastating. Even if the cows and their meat are well monitored and safe, feedlots foul the air and can be a source of water pollution. Growing the massive amount of corn needed to feed herds also means fertilizer and pesticide runoff in water supplies, and trucking feed and meat around the country is a big carbon emitter. Wen Bo, China program director with the NGO Pacific Environment, acknowledges that China's cattle industry needs modernization, but says slapping an American model onto the Chinese landscape won't work. "The situation...
...reached if we look at the health of factory and farm workers who manufacture and apply chemical fertilizers and pesticides and of those who live downstream and downwind of chemical plants. How about the nutritional value of fish living in rivers or ocean dead zones polluted by agricultural runoff? What if we take into account the myriad species of native insects, birds and fish facing extinction from exposure to pesticides? Buying organic farm products, especially from local farms, rewards good stewardship and protects the health of us all. Karen Reddick Yurka, MANZANITA...
...only nutritional value. A different answer might be reached if we look at the health of workers who manufacture and apply chemical fertilizers and pesticides and of those who live downstream and downwind of chemical plants. How about the nutritional value of fish living in waters polluted by agricultural runoff? What if we take into account the myriad species of native insects, birds and fish facing extinction from exposure to pesticides? Buying organic products, especially from local farms, rewards good stewardship and protects the health...
...executive director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University, an organization founded in 1993 with the mission to counter prejudice and improve race relations. Hill, who is white, led a grass-roots campaign to defeat David Duke, the former Klansman who made it into a runoff in Louisiana's 1991 gubernatorial race; racial tensions in the aftermath of Katrina, Hill says, are even more stark than those that surfaced during that watershed event...