Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make Corzine's money a major theme. Election night he trotted out the mantra that he has "experience money can't buy" and warned voters that Corzine might throw around their money the way he throws around his own. As if to make the point, while Corzine was serving shrimp and wine at the Hilton Hotel, Franks' election-night party featured Cheez-Its and a cash...
...behavior at the Oscars this year. He wasn't scowling because he was grumpy; he was just letting his mates back home know he had not gone Hollywood, so they would not stop inviting him to their barbies. (Where, I hasten to add, nothing so big girls' blouse as shrimp is ever served...
...Fish farming--aquaculture--doesn't take pressure off wild fish. Many farms use large numbers of cheap, wild-caught fish as feed to raise fewer shrimp and fish of more lucrative varieties. And industrial-scale fish- and shrimp-aquaculture operations sometimes damage the coastlines where the facilities are located. The farms can foul the water, destroy mangroves and marshes, drive local fishers out of business and serve as breeding grounds for fish diseases. In places such as Bangladesh, Thailand and India, which grow shrimp mainly for export to richer countries, diseases and pollution usually limit a farm's life...
...mandates rules against overfishing--a recognition that protecting sea life is good business. Some fish, such as striped bass and redfish, are recovering because of catch limits. Alaskan, Falkland, Australian and New Zealand longline boats are taking care not to kill albatrosses. Turtles are being saved by trapdoors in shrimp nets...
...Rescue units and police responded to Soldiers Field Park after a woman called to report that her friend, who had eaten shrimp six hours earlier, now had red spots appearing on her skin...