Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central tenet is retiring the old moldboard plow, which laid the earth open to wind and water erosion. Instead farmers leave residue from the previous year's crops in place to hold soil and moisture, then scratch or chisel in seeds, which sprout through the decomposing residue. Crop rotation is used to break insect cycles. Weeds are targeted, controlled by new herbicides that quickly break down and vanish. In this rare and happy story that emerges from centuries of anguished agriculture practices and policies, there is the touch of God's hand soothing the earth and nudging it back...
This neon-walled store is also the best place to pick up mainstream and underground rock magazines. On one shelf you can find the latest issues of Rolling Stone and Creem as well as more specialized journals like Eat Your Skin and Spiral Scratch...
...strategy is at least partly born of necessity. On the overcrowded TV dial, establishing new hits has become increasingly difficult -- and expensive. It is cheaper to try to build a following for an existing show than to start from scratch with a new one. Despite their unfashionable demographics, most of the oldies cast aside by NBC were picked up by other networks: Golden Girls (redubbed The Golden Palace) and In the Heat of the Night by CBS, and Matlock by ABC. "The main thing that guides the network schedules nowadays is the bottom line," says Joel Segal, an executive vice...
...symbolic gesture," Gates explains. "If you're trying to start over from scratch, symbolic gestures have been very important...
...embarrassing incidents became less frequent but did not end. In February 1990, Lujan visited New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument. There he stunned local officials gathered around the centuries-old "Dancing Kachina Petroglyph" when he bent down beside an adjacent rock and scratched it with a knife. The Secretary was asked to refrain. Lujan explains the incident without a trace of embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife...