Word: codding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Then the signs were unmistakable, like the pall of smoke over the Amazon rain forest, where farmers and ranchers set fires to clear land. Finally, as the new millennium drew near, it was obvious that Earth's pain had become humanity's pain. The collapse of the North Atlantic cod fishery put 30,000 Canadians out of work and ruined the economies of 700 communities. Two years ago, deforestation worsened China's floods, which killed 3,600 people and left 14 million homeless. Population pressures and overcrowding raised the toll from last year's rains in Latin America, which killed...
...Tourists headed for Cape Cod this summer should leave their cigarettes at home. The ban on smoking begins...
...That one of the leading institutions in the world trying to partake [in the plan] is laudable," said Devin A. McManus, chair of the 280 member Physicians of Cape Cod. "I think for Harvard University to venture into helping Harvard Pilgrim is appropriate...