Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scale down its 1988 request for economic and military assistance to the Philippines from $471.8 million in 1987 to $267.3 million. Egypt and Israel alone account for 40% of all U.S. foreign aid, while the Philippines -- site of the two largest U.S. military bases on foreign soil -- this year received only 3.5%. Says a State Department official: "The picture is totally bleak...
...didn't order the new grass," said Cozza. "And the soil is dry, well, as a bone...
Only in the fertile soil of Sao Paulo state near what is now Americana did the transplanted prewar Dixie ways take hold. Still, the 94 Confederate ) families who stayed, their fortunes depleted, found homesteading a humbling experience. Few could afford the number of slaves they had back home. "When my mother was a girl here, she picked cotton right alongside the slaves, something she didn't do in Arkansas," drawls Charlotte Ferguson Costarelli, 83, a third-generation descendant...
...began as a loose ensemble in the fertile musical soil of Dunster House. Dunster dwellers Weiner and Tokuno met at the house grill and soon discovered their mutual appreciation of Renaissance music. After Dunster House Resident Composer Charles Kletzsch recommended about 10 musicians who shared their interest...
...bacteria through the environment has become a crucial factor in getting EPA approval for a release. The lack of an effective marker has, for example, held up a test by Biotechnica International, a Cambridge, Mass., firm, of Rhizobium bacteria altered to boost their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil. In one of the California ice- minus tests, however, scientists have been able to monitor the spread of anti- icing bacteria on potato plants. The marker system in this case was rifampicin resistance, less sensitive than Monsanto's multiple indicator but still able to detect the presence...