By the way, the Mayor also suspended rat extermination last spring.

When the health department read Davis's report, it canceled a citywide rat extermination plan.

It appeared in newspapers in 1967 after a bill to appropriate money for rat extermination failed to pass Congress.

She said the garden was kept closed to assess the scope of the project properly and to perform monthly rat exterminations.

There they received their marching orders for the first day of the first parkwide rat extermination blitz ever.

The Irulas are also known to eat some of the snakes they catch and are very useful in rat extermination in the villages.

If that summons is ignored, Mr. Peeples said, the agency can arrange for rat extermination and bill the landlord.

But a rapacious cruelty and despair (represented by the rats and rat extermination) are joined to a whimsical bohemianism, a fierce individualism.

Last August, Mayor Giuliani and the Health Department began an $8 million-a-year rat extermination program in all five boroughs.

Natural England (previously English Nature) began a rat extermination programme in the 1990s with systematic baiting now being carried out by the Wildlife Trust.

The Board of Health of the Territory of Hawaii, in combined efforts with the local sugar plantations, engaged in a vast rat extermination campaign.

And where once he found much of his inspiration in conversations with fellow workers in his carpentry, social service and rat extermination jobs, his writing has turned further inward and grown darker.

Although the Health Department has been working on a rat extermination plan for nearly a year, and plans to use about 200 workers already on the city payroll, the Giuliani administration gave the department the approval to hire exterminators only about two weeks ago, officials said.

Mr. Xia said that under Mao, the government regularly sponsored and coordinated nationwide rat extermination campaigns, but that such efforts were now far less sweeping - like the recent government program to train 10 Siberian foxes to hunt rats that are destroying crops and woodlands in northwest China.