Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Albert Chang kept the slaughter alive in fourth singles, as he walloped Chris Waters, 6-3,6-2, to put the Crimson one point from clinching the match...
...Inkatha's latest rampages in Natal make a mockery of Buthelezi's desire to be the prince of peace. There is no evidence that Buthelezi personally ordered the attacks, and he has strongly condemned the slaughter. Inkatha leaders claim that the upsurge in violence followed A.N.C. provocations, and in fact the bloodshed erupted in 1987 largely because of the A.N.C.'s determination to wipe out Buthelezi's influence...
Pizarro was the third presidential candidate assassinated in the past nine months. Colombian authorities say the wholesale slaughter of politicians is part of the desperate strategy of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the Medellin drug cartel chieftain who is wanted in the U.S. Army and police officials believe they have Escobar trapped in Envigado, a satellite of Medellin. To prevent his escape, Envigado's mayor has been replaced by an army colonel, and an extra 900 national police have been assigned to Medellin. A person authorized to speak for the cartel told TIME that Escobar has assigned his top hit men specific...
...tested on animals. They come in simple plastic bottles that can be taken back to any one of its 464 stores, most of them franchises, for a discount on the next purchase. The shops boast distinctive wood decoration, but endangered tropical hardwoods are banned. Store-window displays protest the slaughter of whales and the dumping of wastes in the North Sea, and leaflets urge customers to help save the ozone layer. Roddick insists that her stores use recycled paper for everything from stationery to toilet tissue...
...estimated 100,000 of the mammals die annually when they are inadvertently trapped in tuna nets. Most of the slaughter is in the eastern Pacific from Chile to Southern California, where, for reasons still unknown to biologists, dolphins tend to school with yellowfin tuna. The dolphins fall prey to the purse-seine method of netting, in which fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna and then pull it taut like the drawstring of a purse. The canners said last week they will no longer accept tuna caught in the region unless it has been harvested without snaring...