Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added emphasis on education and social programs will prevent decent people from taking desperate measures. Increased funds will enable law enforcement agencies to weed out the bad cops without decimating their departments, as well as relieve the stress and work-load of officers on the brink of burnout...
...revived the popularity of civilian review boards. Such panels are at work in 26 of the nation's 50 largest cities, up from 13 seven years ago. The boards save municipal dollars by providing complainants with an alternative to the courts. They can also help departments identify and weed out problem officers before they strike again...
...National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., to air the issue. Traditionally, researchers have published their findings in medical journals, like the New England Journal of Medicine or the Journal of the American Medical Association. Supporters insist that this approach helps ensure credibility by allowing time to weed out sloppy science. Editors send submitted papers to outside scientists for comment, a system known as peer review. But the process can be lengthy. Between the time a paper is first offered and its publication, months or even more than a year can pass. Critics charge that such lapses can cause critical...
...that is more effective against salmonella. Irradiation could wipe out the bacteria, but it would be costly and consumer acceptance might be low, since many people mistakenly believe that zapping food with radiation makes it dangerous to eat. The visual inspections carried out routinely in the plants can weed out obviously diseased chickens, but the contamination is usually invisible. A panel of experts convened by the government may recommend soon that the Department of Agriculture develop better tests to detect salmonella...
...this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved nearly 100 test plantings of crops that have been genetically altered to give them traits such as pest resistance and tolerance to weed killers. More ambitious projects are envisioned, among them adding protein to staples like corn and changing the type of oil produced by soybeans. Pigs that grow faster and leaner and cows that manufacture medicine in their milk are other goals. Observes Arnold Foudin, a biotechnology specialist at the USDA: "Ideas that a short while ago might have been dismissed as harebrained Buck Rogers are now being taken quite...