Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This method of picking the top team is made more horrible by the fact that there isn't a college football playoff. We have those wonderful bowl games like the Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl or the John Hancock Bowl (formerly the Sun Bowl) and many others, none of which would produce a national championship game if Penn State and Nebraska remain undefeated...
...private non-profit Environmental Working Group released a study showing that traces of five commonly used agricultural weed killers are seeping through soil and streams and into the drinking water of some 14 million Americans, mostly in the Midwest. The poisons pose slightly increased cancer risks. The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged there was cause for "concern" but not "alarm...
...noise is the least of it. It turns out that America's 89 million small garden engines are fouling the very land they tend. Gas-guzzling lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed cutters and the like produce 5% of U.S. air pollution overall, and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas. A dirty, inefficient 3.5-hp. gas mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection...
Anna Potter, who lives at 60 Francis St. said yesterday that landscaping machines such as leaf blowers, large riding mowers and weed whackers, "each one louder than the next," make loud noises early in the morning...
...interested electorate would certainly not weed out all these would-be Slicks and Trickies, but it would keep a close eye on them, and it would reward those with a genuine interest in student welfare...