Word: washed
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...Fund notes that since some whales live as long as humans do, it can take decades for scientists to determine whether whaling is harming a species. Moreover, no one yet knows how hunting interacts with other pressures that affect whale populations, including pollution and shipping traffic. Beluga whales that wash ashore at the confluence of Canada's St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers are often so loaded with toxic chemicals that they are treated as hazardous waste...
Since Berry arrived at Harvard, most workers agreed, the College's kitchens have been clean. Employees said they wash their hands and usually, though not always, wear gloves...
...sold at roadside stands or refrigerated in plastic jugs. Tracking a 1991 Massachusetts outbreak of infection with dangerous E. coli bacteria, researchers discovered that most of the 23 victims drank unpasteurized, unpreserved cider purchased at a local farm stand. Scientists warn that some small cider mills do not carefully wash and scrub their apples, which may have dropped to the ground and been tainted with animal droppings. The drink had been thought safe because of its acidity, but researchers found that E. coli can live for 20 days in fresh-pressed cider...
...There might even be savings in the long run because if there was somebody really overseeing the tech work and the technical equipment there wouldn't be so much wash in renting things and losing things," Kiely says...
...steadily maintained that they had launched the raid unaware that Koresh had been forewarned, are now shifting tack. "The element of surprise does not mean they don't know you're coming. Only that they can't take control," says ATF intelligence chief David Troy. That explanation does not wash with the agents who anonymously charge that they were knowingly sent into a deathtrap...