Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dubbed Sunflake City with its part-sun and part-snowflake emblem. Grand forks lays claim to some of the richest agricultural soil in the world. The terrain's predominantly agricultural setting is responsible for the city's relatively miniscule 5.8 percent unemployment rate. "We really have no major industries aside from agriculture," Haggerty says...
...virtues of a bygone era. How to remedy a flagging economy with a record 2.54 million unemployed provoked sharply different ideological approaches. The defense issue was equally divisive. Torn over the consequences of either deploying or refusing to accept a new generation of NATO missiles on their soil, West Germans were threatened by Moscow and exhorted by Washington to the point where they bitterly called it the superpower election...
Studios have shown that animals are more likely to get cancer if they easels than the normal selenium--which originates in the soil and enters the diet through food chain...
...other archaeological rescue of such magnitude had been attempted since UNESCO's raising of the Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel in 1966 to protect it from the floodwaters of the Aswan dam. Consultants from a variety of disciplines, from architecture to soil mechanics, concluded that halfway measures would no longer do; a major rebuilding had to be undertaken. To arrest the "stone cancer," as experts call it, the temple's entire middle section was removed, a job comparable to taking out the center of a layer cake without causing a collapse. With the help of a computer contributed...
...Monday evening thousands of Islamic Guards and volunteer troops, backed by several regular army divisions, swept across a flat plain toward Iraqi positions near the border of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. It was the beginning of yet another major effort to drive enemy forces from Iranian soil, seize Iraqi territory in return, and ultimately bring down the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although the offensive apparently failed to score any immediate breakthrough, it was clear that another grim and bloody chapter in the 2½-year-old Persian Gulf war was in the making...