Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case is different with the American Repertory Theater (ART). About $400,000--9 percent of its operating budget--came from NEA funds last year. Refusing to sign the obscenity pledge would severely hurt the organization's ability to operate. But accepting the money, on the other hand, would blast the group's artistic integrity...
...thought it looked as if "a rocket just took off." Shortly before midnight on the day after the Fourth of July, a devastating explosion leveled a block-square section of the 564-acre Atlantic Richfield chemical plant in Channelview, Texas, east of Houston. At least 17 workers died. The blast occurred while crews were working near tanks that hold petrochemical residues and waste water from the plant...
OPEC members are raking in higher profits by taking over the petroleum industry from the wellhead to the gas tank. -- A devastating petrochemical- plant blast raises questions on safety...
...first blast erupted in the pump room near the stern of the Norwegian- registered Mega Borg during the routine but dangerous process of lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...
...noon, and another round of shelling has begun in Komura. As the earth shudders, men drop into bunkers near a thick stand of bamboo trees. Nobody talks, but with each blast, the muscles in the men's faces tighten. Saw Klee Moo's face, however, remains smooth. When a rocket explodes nearby, shaking the ammunition crate where Saw Klee Moo crouches, he smiles. Saw Klee Moo is nearly 15 and certain that he will never be hit by a bomb...