burgeon
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“If at that time there are huge quantities of locusts around, it will have a devastating impact on the crops,” Burgeon said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2020
But that drier weather is not necessarily the solution, said Dominique Burgeon, the FAO’s emergency and resilience director.
From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2020
Those fighting the locust outbreak may try to negotiate with Somalia’s extremist fighters to allow spraying in rural areas where they are active, Burgeon said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2020
Burgeon has set up a similar pilot dorm for 12 students attending Cathedral High School in Springfield, Mass., and says it wants to make housing available for up to 300 day students within five years.
From BusinessWeek • Oct. 1, 2014
Why, there was Titus, my neighbour in the country—when will you come down to Newcome?—who married a devilish pretty girl, of very good family, too, Miss Burgeon, one of the Devonshire Burgeons.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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