Word: spew
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...panelists clashed over the roles that coal and natural gas should play in expanding supply. Richardson wants new plants to use natural gas because coal-fired generators spew carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. Kuhn notes, however, that coal prices are typically lower and more stable than natural-gas prices and argues that better technology promises to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions as well...
...just the workers who are in danger. Some 6,000 villagers live around the 300-odd processing units, which operate in the area and spew out some 150,000 tons of mercury-laden slurry into the environment annually. Many of them are frightened, too. But such is the gold fever gripping Talawaan that they don't dare speak...
...former user I read with interest this painfully heartfelt account of the power of methamphetamines. Greenfeld gets it. I've had enough of people pontificating on the evils of speed in a blind spew of judgmental ignorance. Unless you've taken that hit yourself and felt the rush, then crashed hard in anguish and despair afterward, I'm not interested in your opinion on the subject. BRIDGET Q. CAIN San Diego
...Welcome to Census India 2001. Late this month computers will spew out the first figures expected to confirm that India is well on its way to overtaking China as the world's most populous nation. Even before the numbers are in, everything about this count has been gigantic and controversial. The government dispatched some 2 million enumerators, or clerks, across the country to visit every village and household, including the makeshift dwellings of India's urban slums...
...prey, with their fresh, almost innocent, foreigner's insight into how to maneuver the media for their own ends, are too. Best of all is Herzfeld's sense of TV as an environment in which all his characters swim. Almost everywhere they go, television screens, big and small, spew forth bilge. They heed it or not, but the medium's pervasiveness is undeniable...