Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly not about to seek that kind of accommodation with Demirel on his own. He is a poet-warrior who studied social psychology and Middle Eastern history at Harvard and wrote the words to his own campaign song, Harmony (sample verse: "Cloud to the sky, rain to the cloud, soil to the rain, how well in harmony"). After a huge celebratory party at the R.P.P.'s yellow stucco headquarters on Ankara's Farabi Street (once home of the Turkish intelligence agency), he plunged into talks to see whether he could form an effective government. His goal: getting promises...
...SOIL LOSS. The soil available for man to grow his crops is rapidly being frittered away by overcultivation, mismanagement and carelessness. Soil erosion may cost the world as much as 2.5 billion metric tons of soil a year, and has already reduced much of North Africa -once the Roman Empire's granary -to desert areas that must import most of their food. Improper irrigation, which can lead to salinization and waterlogging, is taking another 200,000 to 300,000 hectares (500,000 to 750,000 acres) of land out of production each year. As the world's population...
...that some countries have acted unilaterally to lessen the environmental ills that plague them. For example, it commends the U.S. for its actions to discourage use of fluorocarbons and to monitor workers' exposure to cancer-causing substances; it praises Pakistan for a massive reforestation program aimed at preventing soil erosion and the silting of dams and rivers. But it also warns that these unilateral moves are not enough to remove the threats to man's well-being and calls for international collaboration "on a scale not seen so far in the history of mankind" to save the environment...
...rajas Airport. After a brief delay, the doors opened and a frail figure in black descended the forward boarding ladder. At exactly 7:54 p.m. last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years...
...greenhouse in Sherburne County, Minn. The structure needs no fuel: excess heat from a coal-burning electricity plant near by is used to keep temperatures in the 60°-to-75° range. Hot waste water from the plant is pumped into the greenhouse through pipes buried in the soil. The sponsors of the $700,000 experiment -the Northern States Power Co., the University of Minnesota and the Environmental Protection Agency-found its potential intriguing. Along with the roses, some 25,000 Ibs. of tomatoes and 5,000 green peppers were also grown. The plant gives off enough waste heat...