... chemicals Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water inthe Central UnitedStates Recommendations for Protecting Human Health andthe Environment ... Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water inthe Central UnitedStates An Atrazine Primer Atrazine is a selective herbicide ... for the first time the results of surface water and drinking water monitoring required by the EPA across the Midwestern and Southern UnitedStates NRDC obtained these data from the EPA’s Ecological...
... are subdivided into those activities relating to acquiring and processing food; making and repairing tools, clothing, and buildings; and maintaining social relations For each step in an activity, ... (italics in original) Gendered perspectives in archaeology enrich knowledge about the lives of people inthe past and their interactions with people in other gender groups in their communities The ... at understanding the social incorporation of various technologies, much like the recent research into the bow and arrow (Bettinger and Eerkens 1999; Nassaney and Pyle 1999) andthe initial adoption...
... girl and moved up North’: the verb bes inthe Carolinas and its history,” American Speech 75: 240–81 Montgomery, Michael B and Stephen J Nagle 1993 “Double modals in Scotland andthe Southern United ... a koine?,” in Klemola, Kyt¨ , and Rissanen o (eds.), 213–35 1997a “Language variety inthe South: a retrospective and assessment,” in Bernstein, Nunnally, and Sabino (eds.), 3–20 1997b “Making ... article: the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States, ” American Speech 68: 263–318 1993b The Southern accent – alive and well,” Southern Cultures, inaugural issue: 47–64 1993c The verb be in American...
... out the range of variation in talk and writing inthe South, both within and among speakers, and to highlight the contexts in which sounding southern is neutral or detrimental to the task at hand ... [her] $70,000 a year,” in her words In selling mailing lists over the telephone, she finds the strategy of switching into a southern-sounding way of talking and interacting to be particularly ... southern states English,” in Bernstein, Nunnally, and Sabino (eds.), 123–39 1998 “Representing Southern States English: pitfalls and solutions,” in Bronstein (ed.), 78–95 Fennell, Barbara A and...
... discourse about Southerners, whether the Southerners in question are from the coastal or the mountain South and whether they are men or women Travelers from the North inthe mid nineteenth century ... value, and it is the reward in money, not in promises to pay, of the laborer; the reward of each day’s work when the night shuts in It is the fruit of the pick andthe shovel, and it is not the ... journalism and other printed material playing a much smaller role than they did inthe northern states After the war, when the South’s political power was at an ebb, public Features and uses of southern...
... trends inthe South today, but over the last two decades much of the metropolitan growth has been concentrated inthe largest cities inthe region, andthe new industries and businesses moving to the ... by the late Ann Martin Scott (Scott 1992) The essays are directed at educators in order to increase their understanding of the linguistic situation in southern Louisiana and to describe the main ... saints and sinners together in a swampy paradise They love to maintain, revive, and invent occasions for eating, drinking, story telling, gaming, and public festivity All southern Louisianans, Cajun...
... shifting inthe South, both the ordering of the changes and whether chain shifting is the mechanism taking place at all here What she found was that while the back movements were in place, the ... between the position of the vowels in (ay) and (ae) andthe front shift, nor between the parallel fronting of the back vowels andthe front shift The peaks of (ay) and (ae) stay in approximately the ... vowel shifting and diphthongization results in an extremely complex phonology, marking off the region from the rest of theUnitedStates On the other hand, over time, the rise of cities inthe South...
... that there was a general shift inthe vowels of not only the southern states, but all the southern varieties of English around the world – southern England, the southern states of theUnited States, ... vowels before nasals ( pen and pin), the “southern drawl” (lengthening of certain vowels and intrusion of /ə/ between the vowels and following consonant) andthe “breaking” of some vowels, so that ... also with you’uns, heard in Pittsburgh andinthe Smoky Mountains, and with youse and you guys, heard primarily inthenortheasternUnitedStates (cf Wolfram and Schilling-Estes 1998) Some researchers...
... majority, andinthe Caribbean, with its non-white, black and brown majority Inthe latter, it led to more racial integration within the relevant economic classes, whereas intheUnited States, the ... spoken inthe South, such as Gullah on the Sea Islands and Afro-Seminole Creole in southwest Texas, in order to determine the history of these languages and their possible relationship to southern ... period in southern speech crucial to the understanding of black/white speech relationships inthe South.5 In fact, as the 1980s unfolded there was a growing consensus among linguists about the relationship...
... combination of the preposition on + the verbal noun ending in -ing, and during the seventeenth century is found in formal and educated writing, but it became nonstandard during the course of the ... attested inthe nineteenth-century inthe southern UnitedStates (Bailey 1997b: 267), and it is widespread in British dialects At the point of departure the default third-person-plural indicative and ... & that they lye there contynuallie (53) fo 167, 20 August 1575 And that when the said John hathe come to the Dore they haue gon intogether & locked the dore, and went inand satte in by the fyer...
... so in these letters they describe the business of running the plantation andthe routine events like planting, the state of the crops, the weather, diseases among slaves, and so on What is interesting ... African Americans On the other hand, the hills and mountains of the interior supported small-scale farming, lumbering, and mining, and thus the conditions of life resulted in a relatively limited ... along the coastal plains, stretching from the tidewater of Virginia to the bottom lands of Texas In contrast, north of the “fall line,” the line where the flat bottomlands start to rise to the interior...
... Scotch-Irish landed in Delaware or Pennsylvania and soon headed to frontier areas, reaching the interior of Virginia inthe 1730s andthe Carolinas inthe 1750s They and their descendants settled and were ... decade in pursuing the “transatlantic comparison of English and Scots in Scotland and Ulster on the one hand with English in America (especially inthe American South and Appalachia) on the other” ... the interdisciplinary intersection of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and critical theory and is the author of five books including Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2000), The Linguistic...
... fertilization applied singly or in combination is a necessary step in understanding the primary resource limitation to pine growth Inthe past, there has been much research examining VC and fertilization ... respectively, and applied inthe spring of the year installed The combined VC and fertilization treatment was the same used for the individual treatments but applied together Height and diameter ... damage to the crop pines Consequently, these three sites were not included inthe analyses involving the VC treatment; however, these sites were used for analyses involving only the examination...
... logging and fire during this century promoted Acer and Prunus invasion into the Quercus understories While logging and other disturbances promoted oak during the 19th century, logging inthe ... records, including the original land survey in 1858 and aerial photographs taken in 1939 and 1978, indicated that the extent of the gallery forests has greatly expanded from about at the time ... on the original oak-hickory and oak-pine forests Widespread logging and increased fire associated with land clearing, the charcoal iron industry, tanbark and chemical wood cuts and lumbering...
... retroelements (IAPs) Together with our data, these findings highlight the difficulty of avoiding DNA contamination in clinical samples andthe risk of testing contaminated samples as XMRV-positive ... JMT, and PRB performed experiments TS, SH, GT and YI designed the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The ... following the manufactures instruction (Novagen) as described [16] The resulting PCR fragments were further cloned into the TOPO vector andthe sequences were confirmed to be identical to the mouse...
... amaranth were included inthe fourth section and are listed in Table State and collective problematic ranking for each weed species was calculated by assigning points, points, and point to the first, ... the simplicity and flexibility of the technology, allowing growers to increase income by using the time saved in weedmanagement operations in off-farm activities (FernandezCornejo and Caswell 2006) ... area under RR cultivars in these four midsouthern states was 93% Of the remaining scouted area, the LL soybean system was used in Table Questionnaire on the spread andmanagement of glyphosate-resistant...
... plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of the U.S securities markets In GAO’s opinion, SEC’s fiscal years 2008 and 2007 financial statements were fairly presented in all material respects ... recognition of the agency’s substantial progress in strengthening internal controls during fiscal year 2008 The Chairman also stated SEC will continue working to enhance the reliability of its financial ... financial reporting, the soundness of its operations, and public confidence inthe agency’s mission To view the full product, including the scope and methodology, click on GAO-09-173 For more information,...