Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report on Jackpile found that the mine had rendered the nearby Paguate River unfit for human, livestock or irrigation use and that monitoring of the mine's effect on local, water supplies was nearly nonexistant. Today's the mine still releases high levels of radiation into the air and water. ARCO, which claims to have lost money on the mine, has proved extremely reluctant in negotiations with the tribe to make the closed mine safe...
...another $18,000 to dress Twins Maclean and Zachary, 5, and $3,000 to buy the birthday presents "Mack" and "Zack" are obliged to give their Palm Beach playmates. Peter Pulitzer, athletic and severely good-looking, hopes to convince Circuit Court Judge Carl Harper that Roxanne is a wastrel unfit to raise the boys...
Several days after having received White's letter, the mayor publically nnounced that he agreed with White's contention that Podryhula is unfit for police duty. He said he would ask the board, of which he is an ex-officio member, to reconsider its decision...
...consider their wishes. She provides numerous examples of this abuse, adding, "Patients have no choice in what is done to them." In one case, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied (a form of sterilization) after she gives birth because her doctor suspects that her uterus is unfit for another pregnancy. He gets her permission while she is half-paralyzed by anesthesia. Another woman is dragooned into a hysterectomy by a gynecologist who refuses to discuss any other options and falsely assures her that "it's just a little operation. [After...
...Seven (Word; $8.95). During a harsh anti-Christian campaign, starting in 1961, worship services were routinely broken up and many Pentecostal leaders were jailed. When their children faced cruel harassment at school-ridicule, ostracism and beatings-the Vashchenkos decided to educate them at home. The state then ruled them unfit parents, seized Lidiya and two sisters in 1962, and sent them to be raised in institutions until they turned...