Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think for a moment about the world's 1 billion refrigerators and its hundreds of millions of air conditioners. Picture mountains of foam insulation, seat cushions, furniture stuffing and carpet padding. Imagine streams of cleaning fluids, rivers of industrial solvents, wafting clouds of aerosol spray...
...complaints persuaded local manufacturers that it was time to begin removing CFCs from aerosol products. The changeover happened so quickly that when one company ran out of labels saying THIS IS A CFC-FREE PRODUCT, store managers rejected the shipment, knowing that many of their customers would leave unlabeled spray cans on the shelf...
...shoulder sustained during an October bus attack. In the gunfire on Jan. 14, the boy was hit again, this time in the leg. Later that night, Jewish men drove to the home of Riad Malki, a Palestinian hard-liner, pelted the house with stones, broke several windows and spray-painted Stars of David on all the entrances. Although Malki's house is under Israeli surveillance, the army did not intervene. Neither did the Israeli police, who waited until morning to answer Malki's call for help...
...rule of journalism (and of life itself, I suppose) that you do not ask hard questions at the top of a man's backswing. So I waited until Clinton had parred the 440-yd. eighth hole, where the green had been spray-painted with the words CLASS WAR. THE POOR WILL RISE. Clinton's comment, "I hope they do," seemed like a decent opening, and I asked if he knew that the wife of a Bush Cabinet member had told some friends that the Republicans had "the goods" on Clinton's alleged womanizing but wouldn't pounce until the general...
Even if the club queen decided to admit men, The Bee would still be elitist. Admitting people to an organization on the basis of their lineage, prep school, bank account, sports team affiliation or amount of hair spray used is lame and unacceptable...