Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Warned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that Malathion-base spray could put the 3-in.-long nocturnal rodent at risk (and the state in violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act), officials agreed to avoid aerial spraying of the area where the kangaroo rat is found, a 5-sq.-mi. region of Riverside County 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. While they bear no malice toward the rats, anti-sprayers are astounded by the decision. The government, said Adelaide Nimitz, president of Families Opposed to Chemical Urban Spraying, would rather "protect the rats and spray people...
...Real Harvard life isn't like the free ride pre-frosh week makes it seem like. After you get here there are no more free a cappella concerts, and no more ice skating unless you're on a hockey team. The grass isn't even this green usually--they spray painted that...
...last year for the collapse of a storage tank near Pittsburgh that discharged more than 700,000 gal. of diesel fuel into the Monongahela and Ohio rivers; Texaco, fined $750,000 in 1988 for failing to conduct important safety tests on a California off-shore drilling rig; and Ocean Spray Cranberries, fined $400,000 in 1988 for discharging acidic waste water from its processing plant in Middleboro, Mass...
...attempt to become the unobstrusive, all-observing Maury Pauvich, Jeschke conveniently stereotypes the Wellesley student as a "giggling and chattering," "self-absorbed" woman with a fetish for hair spray, high heels and strong perfume. We as Wellesley students are offended by having ourselves, along with 2200 other Wellesley women, lumped into this brainless and wanton image so vividly portrayed in this unnecessarily long article...
...found in the water, first in the U.S., then at the very plant where the water is bottled in Vergeze, France. Yuppies shuddered, bartenders flinched, lime futures tumbled and normally well-hydrated joggers faced desiccation rather than switch to Schweppes. To the true believers, those who used it to spray their camellias or rinse their lingerie or boil fusilli or water their Scotch, there could be no substitute for Perrier...