Word: sown
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Cambridge's mayoral deadlock has sown seeds of conflict in the city's School Committee, members said yesterday...
...shaking, and I lost myself for a few moments. But I had to go on and pretend everything was usual." As he tells it, later "the mountain of earth grew," and "then one day at the end of June or early July, it was flattened and apparently sown, because after a while it looked like a green soccer field...
Even so, Bosnia is a dangerous assignment. Atop the worry list for everyone, from private in the field to general in the Pentagon, is land mines. Overall, experts think the former Yugoslavia has been sown with anywhere from 2 million to 6 million mines. The American sector is known to contain three big minefields plus heaven knows how many mines planted individually and in small clusters. Tore Skedsmo, a U.N. mine expert, says all sides in the Bosnian war--Serbs, Croats and Muslims--"were laying mines like mad" right up until Nov. 21, when the basic peace agreement was initialed...
...Common Cause, Andreas, his wife and ADM have given a total of $1.4 million in so-called soft, or unrestricted, funds to the Republican Party since 1991, as well as $759,000 to the Democrats. In return for his largese, Andreas has often seemed to reap what he has sown. For example, ADM profits handsomely from federal programs that raise U.S. sugar prices above the world level, at an estimated cost to consumers of $1.4 billion a year. That creates a market for cheaper high-fructose corn syrup, which has all but replaced sugar as an ingredient in soft drinks...
...bigger than a freckle, the tiny deer tick has sown panic from Montauk to Minneapolis as a carrier of Lyme disease -- an illness that has struck more than 71,000 Americans and left hundreds permanently disabled. Now the minuscule pest is causing even greater alarm. Scientists say deer ticks harbor yet another pathogen, which, unlike the one responsible for Lyme disease, can-in rare cases-actually kill a person in a matter of days...