Word: blight
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...rock videos [Dec. 26] are one more blight for the generation that has already had its brain fried...
...domain lies near the resort village of Herrenalb in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg. In the hills above the quaint Black Forest town, the dark evergreens that gave the region its name are dying, victims of a blight that is destroying an alarming amount of the for est acreage of heavily industrialized West Germany. In the central state of Hesse, 10% of the spruce are now gone; in the northern city-state of Hamburg, almost 25% of the pines are suffering. Southern Germany has been hit most severely: more than half the trees...
...Vacant housing units are symptoms of serious problems: blight, impending demolition, illegal condo(minim) conversion, speculation...," says the explanatory sheet on the referendum prepared by the CRCC. To prevent this, the group wants to make it illegal to keep housing vacant for more than 90 days...
...poignantly fused within a single week. President Johnson's announcement of a major peace offensive in Asia, coupled with his renunciation of another term, raised anticipation throughout the world that the long agony of Viet Nam might soon be ended. Even as that hope blossomed, an older blight on the American conscience burst through with the capriciousness of a spring freeze. In Memphis, through the budding branches of trees surrounding a tawdry rooming house, a white sniper's bullet cut down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., preeminent voice of the just aspirations and long-suffering patience of black...
...prolonged procedure is not kind to front runners. Mondale, the fastest out of the gate, has been the first to run into difficulties. "Mondale is suffering front-runner blight," says Wisconsin Democratic Chairman Matthew Flynn. "There are very high expectations for him, and when he stumbles a bit the criticism seems to echo." After slipping slightly in public opinion surveys and being topped by Cranston in a June straw poll of party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most...