Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SWAMP THING...
Reno's popularity has taken her by surprise, but she had not spent any length of time in the capital before. It is a city that loves a character, and the early profiles of her Florida upbringing invited an instant mythology. Here she came, trailing swamp stories and reptiles, a self-described awkward old maid with a sensible name and big, sensible shoes, a bracing contrast to the precious professionals that the city seasonally absorbs. "I can be impatient," she told reporters last week, preferring to skewer herself rather than let them do it for her. "I do have...
...ecosystem in question once covered the entire tip of Florida -- about 4 ! million acres of wetland stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. For centuries it was treated like a huge swamp to be drained, farmed and, ultimately, paved. Now the acreage has shrunk to 2 million, and what remains is under pressure from a population growing by 600 people...
...until the middle of this century that the nature of that ecosystem was understood. The Everglades, it turns out, is not a swamp at all but a shallow, sheetlike river, about 50 miles wide, flowing almost imperceptibly from Okeechobee to the sea. It is a leisurely process, a self- perpetuating cycle in which clouds draw moisture from the slow-moving stream, blow north and then rain down on the lakes and rivers that drain into the Okeechobee and back to the Everglades...
...refer to these actions ; as the "suit du jour.") The sugar growers complained that they had been turned into scapegoats and that the water-purity standards were unrealistically strict. A series of advertisements sponsored by U.S. Sugar argued that the restoration plan would spend half a billion dollars making swamp water cleaner than Evian bottled water...