Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European opinion demands no ground-based nukes at all on European soil, NATO would still have substantial air and sea nuclear capability. Wouldn't they be sufficient...
...NATO only has 88 Lance short-range nuclear-capable missile launchers. The U.S. and Britain want to modernize them. Germany and most of the other NATO nations are against modernization. Since the Lances are mainly on German soil, why shouldn't their view prevail...
...best news for the plants is that much of the park's soil seems to have been merely singed. The charred area in some places is only a fraction of an inch deep, leaving root systems intact. Compared with Mount St. Helens, where the 1980 eruption left the side of the mountain without soil, Yellowstone was fortunate...
Concerned that Noriega's proclivity for street violence might put Americans in Panama at risk, President George Bush ordered some 2,000 troops to join the 10,300 American soldiers already stationed on Panamanian soil. He advised all U.S. Government employees and dependents living off U.S. bases to move temporarily to safer quarters, and recalled Ambassador Arthur Davis, a step just short of breaking off diplomatic relations...
Some firms argue that degradable, not recycled, plastics are a better solution to the waste problem. Archer Daniels Midland claims to have invented a kind of cornstarch additive that makes plastics totally disintegrate when exposed to soil, water or sunlight; currently, no more than 0.5% of all U.S. plastic products are degradable. But for the process to work, a certain amount of moisture must be present in the soil, and critics argue that landfills are not always moist enough for the plastic to break down. Even some trash that deteriorates can take years to do so. Says Jeanne Wirka...