Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEED AND SEED. Attorney General William Barr and Budget Director Richard Darman have pushed a scheme that would "weed" career criminals out of inner- city neighborhoods through massive sweeps by federal and local lawmen, and would continue to pacify these areas with intensive "community policing." These neighborhoods would then be "seeded" with social programs such as drug treatment, youth recreation and job training. Sixteen cities are set to receive $1 million each under the pilot program this year, and Bush has requested $500 million more in his budget now before Congress...
...sensitive enough, but the first maps of the microwave sky it beamed down showed nothing. That was not a big problem. The research team knew that the cosmic microwaves are polluted with local microwaves from the Milky Way galaxy and that it would take months of computer analysis to weed out the unwanted signals...
...truly trivial issue, revealing only because it illustrates Clinton's penchant for legalistic evasiveness. Questioned about pot smoking, Clinton first said he had never broken U.S. or state laws -- an answer clearly designed to convey the impression that he had never tried the weed, without his actually saying so. When someone finally asked the obvious question -- what about while he was abroad? -- Clinton confessed that he had smoked marijuana as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in the late '60s but felt compelled to add that not only had he not liked it, he had not even inhaled -- an assertion that...
...oral vaccine, developed by Dr. Hilary Koprowski of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, was made from weakened polio viruses grown in a culture of monkey kidney cells. Several monkey viruses have been known to contaminate such cultures, though vaccine makers now take pains to weed them out. Extrapolating from a number of coincidences -- the testing of the vaccine in the very site where AIDS is thought to have begun; Koprowski's recollection that he cultured the virus in the tissue of green monkeys, a species that harbors a virus similar to HIV -- writer Tom Curtis hypothesizes that the vaccine was contaminated...
...last fall but until then was meant to educate people about pollution, hunger and the arms race by producing documentaries. His heroes used to be Alexander the Great and Napoleon; now they are Martin Luther King and Gandhi. He used to talk about war as an efficient way to weed out the weak members of society; in 1986, to promote world peace, he staged the Goodwill Games in Moscow, on which he lost $26 million, and staged them again last year in Seattle, losing an additional $44 million. And everywhere he goes -- including a November press conference on next June...