Word: washing
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Under the joint proposal, 394,900 acres of public land will be added to the wilderness system, while another 673,000 acres will be returned to "multiple use" status. Both sides made substantial concessions. The environmentalists gave up claims to some of the most majestic sections of the Grand Wash Cliffs at the strip's western edge. Energy Fuels Corp., a uranium-and coal-mining concern, agreed to the costly process of extracting ore from the top rather than the bottom of the Kanab Creek Canyon's 250 million-year-old columnlike rock formations so as to minimize...
...rush to the suburbs began. They hit their peak in 1958, with 4,063 outdoor screens-"ozoners," as they were called in the trade. To attract young families, some operators set up playgrounds and offered warm milk, fresh diapers and even laundry facilities, so Mom could do the family wash while watching Mamie Van Doren undulate through High School Confidential. Since then the number of drive-ins has dropped dramatically. By 1980 there were only 3,504 screens; last year the total dropped to 3,178, and there are only...
Known as the "Ride for Life," the group began its trek June 15 in Seattle, Wash, with nearly $35,000 in pledges and donations. Along the way, Pallotta said, the riders--averaging 80 to 100 miles per day--have raised an additional $35,000, much of it through checks and pledge forms passed to the bicyclists on the road by people in passing cars. The contributions or forms were stolen Saturday, Pallotta said...
...hadn't read through a book in years. The realization that a transitory stage had turned into a way of life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparent could never have induced and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash or eat I had once read somewhere that each newly acquired piece of knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing...
...technology entrepreneurs like to boast that their business is nonpolluting and environmentally sound. But every industry carries environmental risks, and electronics is no exception. The manufacture of computer chips, for example, requires acid baths (to etch microscopic circuits onto tiny ceramic wafers) and vats of industrial cleaning fluids (to wash away extraneous specks). And where there are powerful chemicals, waste-storage difficulties are not far behind...