Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After Salt Lake City Businessman Steven F. Christensen and Housewife Kathleen Sheets were killed by pipe bombs last October, Utah authorities almost immediately named Mark W. Hofmann, a dealer in rare Mormon documents, as their prime suspect. Last week they finally charged Hofmann with the two first-degree murders, as well as 26 other felonies. In building their case, moreover, prosecutors claimed to have not only established a motive for the killings but also to have uncovered a bizarre religious fraud...
Sadly, area fans accept all this with a steely cynicism. After all, every other time the Patriots have neared success, their odyssey has ended in disappointing, controversial, and utter defeat. A little more salt in the wound will hardly hurt...
...thought he was mixing up a tasty bit of rock and roll, Philistines is an easy listening pop album with neither the crunch of "rock" nor the snap of "roll." In short, this is rock music for people drink decaffinated coffee, exercise regularly and watch out for too much salt in their textbook guided diets...
Other resource restorers have rebuilt salt marshes by planting native vegetation and fought to save redwood forests by buying land and replanting damaged stands of trees. While the preservation of redwood forests is an aesthetic, though not unimportant, victory, the reintroduction of salt marshes on the overpopulated and overused Atlantic coast fights erosion, provides a haven for besieged wildlife, and helps remove heavy metals and organic compounds from waters contaminated by industrial waste. The list of restoration activities goes on as Berger's chapters run the gamut of contemporary environmental problems...
Rogers used to sell maybe 20 lobsters a day and now serves 50 or 60. The tourist season has stretched from three months to six months, the crowds thinning somewhat in fall but not the cash flow. He diagrams his business with a salt shaker (Mastercard) and a pepper shaker (American Express). He switches the salt and pepper to represent the change after Labor Day. Family people in summer use Mastercard, older people in fall use American Express, "and they spend more, so I tend to believe people using American Express have more to spend." Rogers loves all the business...