Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President brought more luck for the heavily-favored Crusaders than the home team. Harvard saw its attempt for a third touchdown fail on Grady's goal-line interception as Marine One made a pass over the Stadium...
...have to admit I felt a little sad when I stepped out, looked back and saw an empty shell," says Moore, speaking from his new shop...
...superpower relations, Bush said he saw "signs of a new attitude that prevails between the U.S. and U.S.S.R." though he acknowledge serious differences remain...
Once it was a forbidding wilderness of marshland and saw grass that had to be drained and tamed before southern Florida could realize its rich potential. Today the Everglades -- what is left of it -- is surrounded by an urban sprawl of 4.5 million people. Thriving sugarcane farms carved out of its northern reaches drain pollutants into its water; Air Force jets boom over its skies. The 1.4 million-acre Everglades National Park, created in 1947, has become an endangered relic in the nation's fourth most populous state. "Make no mistake," says outgoing park superintendent Michael Finley, "the Everglades...
...There's nothing simple about trying to replicate nature," says Jim Webb, regional director of the Wilderness Society, "but it has to be done." Florida's research shows that high levels of phosphates and nitrates from farm runoff have transformed more than 20,000 acres of Everglades saw grass into cattails. These intruders, which thrive in high-nutrient water, suck the oxygen from the marsh and suffocate aquatic life at the bottom of the Everglades food chain. On shallow ponds and canals, nutrient-fed algae grow so thick that they block the sun from underwater plants. So far, most...