Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stall that has a drain in the middle of the floor? These days, television movies go into production before the smoke clears. Barbra Streisand and Sharon Stone roam the corridors of power. And politicians are starting to buy infomercials to sell their wares like so many cans of spray-on hair. Most people wouldn't consider these positive trends, but they're wrong. Dead wrong...
...places with fewer neighbors and more space, nativescapers can be more adventurous. Marti Springer of Tallahassee, Florida, surrounded her home with native plants and planted parsley as a special caterpillar food. She asked the county not to spray her bog for mosquitoes because they are eaten by bats. Now she is planning to set up a bat house. "Bats should just love it here," she predicts...
...Philadelphia after the riots to replace the truculent Daryl Gates, was intent on not repeating Gates' mistakes of last year, when police were deployed to riot zones too late and in insufficient numbers. In addition to providing his force with new gear, including bullet-resistant helmets, rubber bullets and spray cans of disabling gas, Williams brokered a mutual-aid pact with other Southern California cities. In the event of trouble, up to 20,000 out-of-town reinforcements could be moved...
...multivictim drive-by shootings. "The gang age is getting much younger," says Danny Hernandez, founder of the Hollenbeck Youth Center in the mostly Chicano Boyle Heights. "It used to be 17 or 18. Now it's 10-, 11- or 12-year-olds doing the triggering. And now they spray the areas...
...Nazi spray paintings weren't the only sign of trouble in Spain, either. Just as the HIV test looks for antibodies to the AIDS virus rather than for the virus itself. I detected a subterranean ideological war in some Spaniards' perception that rightist musings must be responded to in kind...