Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SCENE LOOKS AS TIMELESS as one from the Odyssey: billowing sails, hulls slicing through salt spray, sunburned crewmen pulling at ropes and squinting into wind. But if the image is classic, the men competing in the America's Cup final this week know victory will owe more to expensive high-tech wizardry than to the art of ancient mariners. "National technology is at the heart of the competition," says John Marshall, boatbuilder and head of the Partnership for America's Cup Technology. "It's been a technology contest since 1851." That year a newly designed schooner called America launched...
...before laying their eggs. (Females of the European variety do not fly.) If the Asian gypsy moth becomes entrenched in the Pacific Northwest, the Forest Service estimates that the toll on the timber industry could run upwards of $35 billion over the next 40 years. By contrast, Washington's spray program -- which is scheduled to run about six weeks and cover 116,500 acres -- will cost $8.9 million. British Columbia has already started spraying, and Oregon has just begun...
...spray being used is not expected to hurt people, mammals or birds. It consists of naturally occurring bacteria that are lethal only to caterpillars. Some environmental groups and residents have opposed the program because the spray will eliminate butterflies and other insects as well. But officials of the state agriculture departments believe the indigenous species will quickly regenerate...
Inexplicably, at periodic intervals, the actors chose to spin around the stage in a Lycra whirlwind, scuttling through the audience like roaches zapped with bug spray. Perhaps the audience is expected to draw a deep meaning from the sight of actors running nowhere. Perhaps...
...Baby, don't you drive around with Dr. Bernice/ She's not a lady doctor at all." Lowery is in top form with his mysterious but earthy images: "Baby, don't you drive around with Dr. Bernice/ That ain't a real Cadillac/ It's a Delta 88, spray-painted black/ With fake leather seats from Juarez...