The paint job couldn't cover the fact that in just three months the new president had run up an anti-environmental record that would be the envy of even the most dedicated despoiler.
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Environmental despoilers : Maxxam, a timber and metals firm, looks like a strong performer in this category; the doubtless agenda-free Council on Economic Priorities accuses them of overharvesting old-growth redwoods.
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The attacks, which included the costliest act of environmental sabotage in U . S . history, have targeted luxury homes and SUVs, the suburban status symbols that some environmentalists regard as despoilers of the Earth.
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For Republicans, the challenge is to avoid being seen as despoilers of the Earth; the Democrats need to protect themselves from being portrayed by Republicans as more concerned about championing the spotted owl than people's livelihoods.
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Uberto was deposed by Pope Innocent III as a despoiler of church property, but the canons put off until 1219 the election of his successor, Gilberto, who was forced by the tyranny of Ezzelino to live in exile.
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Hiaasen's villains run to greedy land developers with visionary schemes for turning the state into a theme park, the crooked politicians in cahoots with these despoilers, and the freelance scavengers who swoop down to pick over their leavings.
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Unlike Hitchcock's flapping fiends, the crows keeping Chatham and other North American cities awake nights are basically just a nuisance, slashers of garbage bags, destroyers of lawns in their quest for grubs, despoilers of new paint jobs.
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Much as " Strip Tease " was a story about Big Sugar and " Sick Puppy " was about environmental despoilers, long a favorite Hiaasen cause, " Basket Case " is a story about the state of American newspapers.
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He is titled as the conqueror of the Amorite lands, despoiler of the Kassites, in the ` ittti-Marduk kudurru, despite the beneficiary being a Kassite chieftain and ally, and having smitten the mighty Lullub?with weapons.
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The paint job couldn't cover the fact that in just three months the new president had run up an anti-environmental record that would be the envy of even the most dedicated despoiler . ( Teepen, Cox News Service . ) MOVED
