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...ever present stench--the overpowering smell from Seaboard's 40,000 hogs closely confined in 44 metal buildings, where exhaust fans continuously pump out tons of pungent ammonia, mixed with tons of grain dust and fecal matter, scented with the noxious odor of hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...noxious stench of gas and burning rubber envelopes the bleachers. It's late, so the crowd has thinned to a few dozen die-hard race fans and family members. The track itself is lined with billboards advertising the "Camaro Heaven" car dealership and Ten's Show Club (the "Gentleman's Club...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: Drag Night | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

While some students may not be all that excited about sharing their habitat with these harbingers of stench, the University's policy is one of tolerance...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Newsgroup Postings Report Skunk Sightings | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

Throughout Da Game, Snoop strives to come across as hard, harder than the other charges on Master P's label. The refrain for one song goes "Kill, kill, kill/ Murder, murder, murder." Snoop says he's just being more "confident." But this CD has a stench of evil that's not present in Snoop's previous work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Leash On Life | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...have a rule at the hedge fund that I run: sell a stock at the first whiff of accounting irregularities. This rule has kept us from losing fortunes, including those we had made in Oxford Health, Sunbeam and Waste Management, to name three recent situations where the stench of overcooked books, and a dramatic decline in stock price, followed closely behind that early whiff. When a stock gets hit because of a product glitch, or a short-term execution problem, I will consider holding on, or even buying more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoid My Mistake | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

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