Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show, but decided, as it has done on other occasions, to follow it with a discussion of the film's veracity by a panel of experts. At week's end only six of the 141 PBS stations originally slated to run the show had decided to scrub...
...these beasts annually. They are especially useful in cancer research because they will not reject a tumor transplant like other laboratory animals. Unfortunately, they will not reject any other diseases either, and so they must be raised in a totally germ-free environment; researchers have to scrub down and wear face masks before entering the breeding lab. Because the care is expensive, the bare rodent sells for $12, vs. 70? for Charles River's regular furry off-the-shelf mouse...
Every morning for seven years, two workmen have had to scrub the front steps of Oklahoma's state capitol, cleaning up after the hundreds of starlings and pigeons that roost on the ledges overhead. To end the problem, the state installed spikes, but the birds merely used them to anchor their nests more securely. Next the state spread a sticky goo that was supposed to give the birds hot feet. This did not work either. Then the state set out corn kernels that had been treated with a birth-control chemical. The birds still multiplied...