Word: washing
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Many of his suits are based on various state and federal laws that forbid dredging and filling operations in tidal lands without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. Though tides wash over almost all of the mangrove swamps, developers often neglect to get such a permit; then Matthews sues, sometimes with strange results. In 1970, for instance, the Lutgert Construction Co. started a giant beachfront development involving the dredging and filling of 1.65 million cu. yds. of tidal lands in Naples. Matthews began writing protest letters in all directions and finally got the Corps of Engineers to demand...
...peritoneum, or abdominal sac. Tests and experimental treatments demonstrated that steroid drugs effectively combatted properly diagnosed starch peritonitis, and the lumps disappeared. The Lancet's editors urge doctors not merely to rinse off the starch substance, as that could worsen matters by clumping the starchy residues; they must wash the gloves off vigorously and then wipe them thoroughly with sterile towels before picking up their scalpels...
...word, strong. "The scent will stay with you maybe four days," promises-or threatens-Bernard Mitchell, president of Chicago's Jovan, Inc., one of the biggest manufacturers. "It doesn't wash off when you swim or bathe." Its lasting quality has long made it a fixative for other perfumes, but till now its strong odor ruled it out as a separate scent...
Florida Democratic Representative Dante Fascell found the questioning of the Georgia coed assigned to him so interesting that he spent twelve hours with her, including lunch and dinner. Massachusetts Democratic Representative Thomas P. O'Neill invited his interviewer to spend an entire Saturday with him, even helping him wash clothes at a Laundromat. Washington's Democratic Representative Lloyd Meeds termed the Nader questionnaire "the best I've ever seen" and said he actually enjoyed the "chance to ponder what I'm doing here...
...STUART MACDONALD Tacoma, Wash...