The shadow of Macaulay Culkin rests uneasily and the showbiz parent attracts bad press in a town where embarrassing mothers hog borrowed spotlight and spew inanities at the gawpers and stalkers.
The chimneys of paper mills spew white smoke into the slate-grey sky; the air smells as acrid as ever.
And one, in Hyogo, continues to spew out dioxin at 10,000 times the concentration allowed elsewhere.All that poison floating around in the air may pass unnoticed.
The gush of oil likely to spew from a "liberated" Iraq the only country whose reserves even begin to rival Saudi Arabia's could prove devastating.
National governments decide how much carbon the five dirtiest heavy industries in their countries may spew forth (the industries are things like power generation, pulp and paper, and metal bashing).
NEXT time the sun decides to spew a few billion tonnes of hot, charged gas towards the earth at a million miles per hour, it would be useful to have a few days' warning.
But there is a difficulty with PC plants: they spew out a huge volume of flue gas, of which CO2 is only a small part.
The toxic bullshit, which began to spew from the mouths of BP executives shortly after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April, has completely devastated the Gulf region, delaying cleanup efforts, affecting thousands of jobs, and endangering the lives of all nearby wildlife.
High-frequency traders, some of them billion-dollar outfits, spew out and retract many buy and sell orders every millisecond.
The computers also instruct sprayers to spew sand between wheels and rail when extra traction is needed.
Printing presses were ready to spew out the 1,000-page 1,000-page.
