Word: scoopfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nets, can cover a slice of ocean up to 40 miles wide and 40 ft. deep. In North Pacific waters, fishermen from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routinely let the nets float for as long as nine hours at night. They are intended to catch squid, but they also scoop up sea turtles, porpoises, seals, birds and various kinds of fish. Environmentalists call them killer nets and accuse those who use them of "strip-mining" the ocean...
...Scoop du Jour: In the third inning of the game, Engineers' shortstop Pillan Thirumalaisamy pounded 0-1 Ubert pitch that had hit written all over it. Deep in the hole, O'Connell dove to his left, bent his body to the right and snagged the ball. He then fired to first baseman Rich Renninger to catch Thirumalaisamy by at least a foot...
...major spill within five hours. When the unthinkable happened, the reality was somewhat different: the first crews and equipment did not get to the spill until ten hours after the accident. And then they could do little because booms to contain the oil and mechanical skimmers to scoop it up were pitifully insufficient. Moreover, the barge capable of receiving the skimmed oil had been damaged and could not be deployed until the next...
...work hard, and hopefully you come up with the ground ball," Vogel added. "Dono is a premiere face-off artist. He has a great draw and he never misses a scoop...
...covering death, reporters and editors face a difficult paradox: the best material in a journalistic sense very often turns out to be what is most painful to grieving survivors. News organizations, driven by intense competition, rarely let concern for a victim's privacy get in the way of a scoop. The push for live coverage of late-breaking news has put local TV stations in the uncomfortable position of being able to broadcast word of a person's death before the victim's family has been officially notified...