Word: infestation
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...They are more aggressive and can attack an intruder by the hundreds, and kill, when their colony is disturbed. The bees' real threat, however, is to the farming and honey industries: Africanized bees are less efficient crop pollinators and honey producers, and could cause multimillion- dollar losses if they infest the nation's apiaries...
...repel foreign invaders, not homegrown terrorists. The air force bought fighter jets in 1987-88 but needs helicopters to search the rugged hillsides and dense jungles where drug laboratories are concealed. The navy spent $90 million to repair submarines instead of investing in light powerboats to chase traffickers who infest the country's rivers...
More than 500 gangs, with some 80,000 known members, infest Los Angeles County. The best known are the Bloods and the Crips, the two largest, predominantly black gangs, and the most bitter of rivals. Bloods and Crips break down into small neighborhood sets, and it is not uncommon for one Crip group to fight another Crip group up the street, for Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach...
...with President George Bush last year to discuss education. But Velazquez, a senior who hopes to attend M.I.T. in the fall, is one of the fortunate few: roughly half of those who began tenth grade with him have dropped out, lured by the drugs and gangs that infest the surrounding neighborhoods...
...months, Abdul-Jabbar at 41 is the league's oldest player, and has already re-enlisted. After he made two free throws at the end of Game 6, the 7-ft. 2-in. center was asked about those familiar butterflies that infest stomachs. His, he explained, had long since expired of old age. When he first arrived at UCLA as Lew Alcindor, Abdul-Jabbar was a sculpture of pipe cleaners, all connected at right angles, that later became high-tension wires. Now he is the most serene mobile in sports...