Word: roote
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forms of air pollution. Acid rain, which results from sulfur dioxide emissions from coal and some power plants, poses a tremendous threat to the environment. Produced mainly in the Eastern U.S., it acidifies lakes and streams, killing fish and other aquatic wildlife, and has been found to cause excessive root decay to forests and crops and to corrode man-made structures. The human dangers of acid rain are twofold: sulfur dioxide interferes with the respiratory system, and acidified water pulls toxic metals out of water supply piping. About one-half the acid rain which falls on Canada originates...
...bootlegging." Too, as Architect Gerald Wade was instructing an inquisitor the other day, "Your question is phrased wrong. The question isn't how long the county has been dry, but, rather, whether it's ever been dry." One must call upon a distant memory to catch the root of this observance, and that would be the memory of one's response to a parental order to cease a pleasant but pagan dalliance. The result is defiance, brashly executed...
...root cause of weapons waste in the U.S. is the absence of clear guidance from the top about where and how America should be prepared to fight. "If you don't know what you want to do, you can't plan how to do it," says John Collins, senior defense specialist "for the Library of Congress. The defense guidance report produced by the Pentagon often seems to be a web of rationales for buying all possible wonder weapons. "It does little to set meaningful priorities," says General David Jones, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...antisocial behavior-shoplifting, say, flagrant adultery, embezzlement and, of course, mugging-provided some acceptable frailty of the psyche or pocketbook could be dredged up to excuse it. Even the faintest suggestion that an individual might be justified or obliged to use violence in defending himself touched some deep root of outrage in his neighbors and his wife...
...went to the games all the time," he says. But he adds that his loyalties haven't always lain where they do now. "I used to root for Boston University, and my father would root for Harvard," he says...