Mr Giuliani has ordered the entire city to be sprayed with pesticide.

ECONOMIST: King Rat

Adding to their discomfort, the English players will be sprayed with insect repellent before the game to combat swarms of airborne bugs, that are a feature of Donetsk in the summertime.

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Clouds would be sprayed with minuscule droplets of seawater.

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Nor yet is it true that the whole thing is really a plot to sell Monsanto's Roundup herbicides, by hooking the farmer on crops modified so they can be safely sprayed with Roundup, but with nothing else.

ECONOMIST: Non-food GM

Regulations on the use of biocides were first introduced in 1998, however a loophole that exempted treated products - such as furniture sprayed with fungicide - will be closed.

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Eclipse, which is meant to be sprayed on apples, cherries and other fruit four to ten times a season, is made with microcrystalline calcium carbonate--the nontoxic white powder that's on the outside of chewing gum.

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