Word: use
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...potent and dangerous is the herbicide paraquat that in 1983 a U.S. district court banned its use on federal property. But last week it seemed that paraquat might be re-enlisted for the war on drugs. Heralding yet another offensive against homegrown marijuana, the Drug Enforcement Administration said it would consider spraying pot fields with paraquat as well as the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate...
What Dukakis has done in Massachusetts, albeit with uneven success, is to use the levers of government, along with state money, to goad business into helping achieve liberal goals -- from rebuilding depressed areas to providing health insurance for all workers. Can this liberalism on the cheap work on the federal level? There is reason to wonder, especially since the resources Dukakis proposes to invest seem so paltry compared with his promises. But he does have the virtue of being the first modern Democratic nominee who can talk of plans and programs without prompting voters to check their wallets...
Former Secretary of State and Maine Senator Edmund Muskie said "only time will tell" if the Democrats have really united behind Dukakis. "When you use glue, you have to wait a few minutes before it hardens--we're waiting to see if it hardens," Muskie said...
Brinkley also pays tribute to the lesser-known heroes of the Allied effort, such as Amy Thorpe, a British intelligence agent who used her "bedroom skills" with officials of the Polish government not only to steal a highly sophisticated machine developed by the Germans but also to figure out how to use it. Considered the greatest and most spectacular espionage achievement of the war, her action enabled the British to read Hitler's most secret messages and orders to Nazi generals before even they had seen them...
...going to bring in sand, beach balls, beach games and music to create the atmosphere of a beach right here in Boston," says Eaton. "We won't use the water from the harbor, of course. But we want the beach party to be symbolic of that day in the future when the people of the inner city water areas can use the local water. This all goes along with the Harbor Clean-Up project. We want the water to be enjoyed as clean...