Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week proclaimed himself a candidate. The startling announcement might have seemed laughable -- were Santos' challenge not so serious to the three leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17. Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place -- meaning he has a shot at making the final...
...sole congressional seat contestedyesterday, early returns from Texas put Houstoncity council member Anthony Hall and state Sen.Craig Washington far out front in an 11-way raceto succeed the late Rep. Mickey Leland. NeitherDemocrat was gaining 50 percent of the vote neededto avoid a runoff...
...Thirteen Everglades animals are now endangered species. Only about 30 Florida panthers remain, and in recent years several have been killed on roads cutting through the area. Half the original Everglades has been lost to development. Now the biggest threat comes not from bulldozers but in nutrient-laden runoff from sugarcane and vegetable farms that lie to the north, between the Everglades and its chief source of water, Lake Okeechobee...
...There's nothing simple about trying to replicate nature," says Jim Webb, regional director of the Wilderness Society, "but it has to be done." Florida's research shows that high levels of phosphates and nitrates from farm runoff have transformed more than 20,000 acres of Everglades saw grass into cattails. These intruders, which thrive in high-nutrient water, suck the oxygen from the marsh and suffocate aquatic life at the bottom of the Everglades food chain. On shallow ponds and canals, nutrient-fed algae grow so thick that they block the sun from underwater plants. So far, most...
...nearly 50 years, the U.S. has followed an agricultural policy of showering farmers with subsidies and encouraging them to use plenty of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. U.S. farmers are among the most productive in the world, but their techniques are harming taxpayers and the environment. Chemical runoff is polluting groundwater. At the same time, rich Government subsidies that encourage farmers to devote too much land to a single crop have contributed to topsoil erosion. American agricultural policy should be changed to support "environmentally benign" farming methods, declared a study published last week by the National Academy of Sciences. The report...