Word: devoid
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...into inorganic compounds, especially nitrates and phosphates. When these are pumped into rivers and lakes, they fertilize aquatic plants, which flourish and then die. Most of the dissolved oxygen in the water is used up when they decompose. As a result, lakes "die" in the sense that they become devoid of oxygen, bereft of fish, choked by weeds. In short, by solving one problem (dirty water), the sewage plants create another (eutrophication...
Purpose of the strike, said Bellinger, is "to call public attention to the fact that we have no legal protection, that the president refuses to take disciplinary action, that we are confronted with a situation devoid of law." Particularly galling to the strikers is the fact that the president, Rolf Kreibich, 31, is not a full professor, has not even completed his doctorate, and was elected despite the opposition of most professors...
...return, are there not sufficient legal and business talents at Harvard's command to negotiate an agreement that could serve both Harvard's and the City's needs without undue risk? I cannot believe that the University is so devoid of competence...
...Imagine saying that corporate officials should have only the goal of making money, devoid of any kind of social consciousness! Should we then thank Professor Friedman for our water and air pollution, our congested highways, and our ghettos-all in the name of a free economy whose dubious goal is the pursuit of profit...
Reading the NYA newspaper Attack!. one finds in the group's mentality an awesome witch hunt; the devil is red and black, and recognizably utopian. The witches are trose who teach that "paradise is a place where hominoids with full bellies live in a perpetual rut," devoid of "honor, loyalty, race and Western man's will to conquer...