Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result is the fast trading easy money of a land boom. Ranchers near Denver or Boulder can sell their holdings of sage and scrub for as much as $3,000 an acre. Colorado is now one of the nation's fastest-growing states (seventh after Nevada, Florida, Arizona, Alaska, California and Maryland). But there is a mounting fear that the developers' busy bulldozers threaten the very qualities of their state that Coloradans cherish most. Worried, the Colorado Institute on Population Problems has taken to statewide TV to urge: "Think small...
...popular belief, does not reclaim cleared land that has been depleted. Unless modern techniques of crop rotation and fertilization are used -techniques few of the impoverished colonists know-nutrients could be washed away a few years after the land is cleared, turning it into a desolate wasteland where only scrub brush would grow. "We honestly don't know what is going to happen if the forest is cut down," admits the agrarian-reform program's Jorge Pankov. "But when your belly is so empty that you have to steal to fill it, you're less...
Finding a remedy is complicated by the fact that the truffle is a mysterious fungus related to the mushroom, growing mostly on the roots of certain scrub oaks, usually five or six inches underground. Wet summers, a decline in oak planting and the unpredictable nature of the truffle itself have all contributed to its increasing scarcity...
...pollution. All this may seem regressive to young mothers who hate washing cloth diapers and love the new disposables. But for those who worry about pollution, Procter & Gamble is playing both sides of the issue. The company also makes Ivory Snow-the perfect product, it says, to scrub cuddly cotton diapers...
...rivalry, unfair treatment, and general dissatisfaction, our two most influential colleges have withdrawn from the regatta; Yale's departure to be effected this year, and Harvard to appear but once more in the arena of that contest which is so rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like that celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength and skill. We prefer a duello to a brawl...