Word: sulphur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story was Horatio Alger with a gun, an ice pick and a dark vision of Big Business. He was nine when the family immigrated from Sicily, where his father had labored in the sulphur pits, to New York City. He took to the streets early, was busted almost at once for shoplifting, later for delivering drugs. Luciano was a tough teenage hoodlum on the Lower East Side when his gang targeted a skinny Jewish kid whose bold defiance won their respect. The encounter led to a merger of Jewish and Italian gangs and a lifelong friendship. When Luciano rebuilt...
...especially fond of the organisms that live inside undersea tube worms, existing on sulphur filtering out of deep-sea thermal vents...
Last week intrepid birders--they don't call themselves bird watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the while praying for a glimpse of the rare eared trogon...
...main provisions of this bill was its setting of a specific amount of sulphur dioxide, 10 million tons, to be removed from the environment by the year...
...aftermath of the U.S.-Canadian Free Trade Agreement "The Canadian prime minister was really pressuring the president to address the acid rain issue," Porter said. The Canadian atmosphere receives a large amount of the American industries' sulphur dioxide wastes...