Word: weed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clean swaths that farmers have plowed across the prairie are well suited to the efficient use of farm machinery. But they encourage erosion that has allowed vast amounts of topsoil to be blown away by wind or washed into the rivers and lakes. Chemical fertilizers, insecticides and weed killers have contributed to harvests that make U.S. agriculture the most productive in the ! world. But they have also leached into groundwater, contaminating wells in rural communities across the nation. "Not every well is polluted, and not every farmer has an erosion problem," says Ernest Shea, executive vice president of the National...
...When you've got no car, when the airfare is too high (or there's no airport at all), when the railroad tracks have long since gone to weed, there's always the Greyhound bus. It will get you to the next town or around the country, and it will take you to obscure places you call home and away from places you never want to see again. Planes and trains serve 500 communities; Greyhound serves 9,500. For many Americans who live in small towns, when there's no Greyhound, there's no exit...
Recusal does not discourage curiosity. On the contrary, it allows curiosity to breathe and put down roots. It clears some of the junk out of the garden, pulls up a few weeds. In my garden, I say, weed out the Trumps. You may choose to cultivate the Trumps. Let a hundred flowers bloom...
...hope of Californians is that their importance in the general election is mirrored in the primaries. The hope of Democrats is that California will weed out the national candidate from the parochial ones...
Most conspicuous in this town are the empty, weed-splotched lots where bright, middle-class summer houses used to stand. In a city of low wooden tenements, these lots just make the casinos stand out even more...