Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner or later, you're going to have to replace that worn-out machinery, and it's almost a certainty you will have to pay more for the replacement than you did for the original. When you treat depreciation as profits you're living off your seed grain." One fact that all sides can agree on is that profit margins in the U.S. would be far better if the economy had not expanded at such a slow pace over the last few years. The excess manufacturing capacity that burdens much of U.S. industry helps to keep corporate...
...sense of seeing nature from within, of literally being sucked into the guts of things. Landuyt's great achievement is the suspense he manages to generate, as if each of his oozing, pulsating interiors were about to pop. This is the magic he is after-to catch the seed just as it is about to burst into life, "the supreme moment of utter standstill and containment before the eruption of form...
...much the most memorable of Captain Brassbound's crew. [Not that the rest are inadequate: one of the others is quite first rate, although I inadvertently ignored him first time round. I refer, of course, to Donald Lyons, who gives us an again Bright Young Thing going to seed at just the proper rate of speed. The Captain himself, alas, is not so memorable. Terrence Currier has taken over the role; and though he certainly looks a proper Black Pete, his voice gets lost somewhere in his swarthy beard...
...Petersburg's problem is twofold. With 25% of its residents aged 65 or older (against a national average of 9%), it is full of people who are susceptible to serious cases of SLE. Many of them also love to feed the birds. even to get them to take seed from their lips. At downtown Mirror Lake last week, old folks were feeding pigeons, house sparrows, mockingbirds and grackles. while laughing gulls, ducks and herons splashed in and out of the water. There, in a half-hour, health workers easily caught 70 mosquitoes (Culex nigripalpus, one of the species...
During the summer adult weevils lay eggs in the seed pods of the puncture weed. In the spring the growing larvae feast on the seeds, killing them. Later the weevils even develop wings for a short time and follow seeds that the plants may have thrown to the wind. If there is a large crop of seeds, the weevils flourish along with their food supply. If there are more weevils than plant seeds, the little bugs simply die off. Thus nature maintains a delicate balance that allows neither the puncture weed nor its weevil to stir up a population explosion...