Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First there came Johnnie Cochran, descending on the Law School with his swarm of Nation of Islam bodyguards. Four days later Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti was part of a panel speaking at the Law School. And, less than two weeks from today, prosecutor Christopher Darden will be speaking in Sanders Theater. A strange trend is developing...
...achieved remarkable success in feeding and sheltering refugees and in eradicating smallpox, to cite only two accomplishments. While a failure in Bosnia, peacekeeping has been effective in other parts of the world. But even the U.N.'s fiercest defenders agree that on the whole the swarm of agencies, funds, commissions and regional offices has operated with an inefficiency that can no longer be tolerated. The entire U.N. system spends about $10.5 billion a year. That's not a lot of money, considering the U.N.'s mission (it's about one-third of New York City's budget). Even...
...Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering late summer, flies swarm in and out with impunity...
...ever challenged the extent of Whitacre's determination to succeed, which makes his casting as a whistle blower so unusual. Whitacre, say those who have worked with him, seemed happy and in a hurry. "He'd just swarm over a problem until it was solved," says Professor Gerald Combs of Cornell University, where Whitacre earned a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry in 1983. "He was like a saw running on 220 volts instead of 110. We used to tease him about how wired...
Essentially docile, bats play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance. For one thing, they protect crops from marauding insects. The 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats that roost in Bracken Cave near San Antonio, Texas, from spring to fall consume 250 tons of insects every night as they swarm to altitudes of 10,000 ft. Farmers are not the only ones who benefit. A single little brown bat can speedily clear a suburban backyard of pesky mosquitoes, lapping up 600 bugs an hour...