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Households were considered to have engaged in multiple mosquito protection measures if at least three of the following measures were reportedly used: coils, bednets, screening of windows and eaves, repellents, clearing debris from drains and ditches, burning of organic material, or insecticides.
They call the estate tax an exercise in class warfare , and argue that it drains money from private investment.
The Jordan River is so called because the geography of Utah resembles that of Palestine: Lake Utah drains via the Jordan River into the Great Salt Lake, just as the Sea of Galilee drains via the Jordan River into the salty Dead Sea.
Here's an actress with a rare knack for emotional realism, the kind of intelligent, commanding presence that drains reality from lesser co-stars.
Community-level stratification captures factors that are difficult to control for, such as quality and condition of households in the area, variation in how much a community takes care of its immediate environment (civic pride or responsibility), and resources the community can access, such as municipal vector control, municipal maintenance of drains and water mains and paved roads.