Word: blasting
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...didn't say anything about water. Indeed, neither the company nor government officials mentioned the facility's tanks of benzene, nitrobenzene and a related chemical called aniline, located near the banks of the Songhua River. The blast ruptured the tanks, dumping 100 tons of those chemicals into the river. "If there was a leak of the tanks," says an executive of a foreign chemical company who was briefed by officials in Beijing on the events at Jilin, "it would be an emergency. But this was a flood...
...about its subsequent actions. In a Nov. 24 statement it said that it "quickly" sent an expert team to Jilin and neighboring Heilongjiang province, which lies downstream. But in the same statement, SEPA said that Jilin officials didn't notify their counterparts in Heilongjiang until five days after the blast, on Nov. 18. The central question?When were all the relevant authorities informed of the massive chemical leak??is still unanswered. And residents of both provinces were deliberately kept in the dark. "There are many ways to spread information," explained SEPA's vice director, Zhang Lijun, at a press conference...
...Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...
...play in the first period, and with the Bears’ fourth penalty waning, the Crimson finally got its top-ranked man-advantage unit going. Sophomore winger Jon Pelle’s pass from the left circle set up senior center Charlie Johnson’s blast from the point, which senior forward Dan Murphy deflected through D’Alba’s five-hole to give Harvard a 2-0 lead. It was Murphy’s team-leading sixth goal of the season. For the first time in almost a month, the Crimson maintained its level...
...hotel, with children, women and men inside," she said, explaining the choice of target. Her husband then took one corner of the ballroom, she took another. "I tried to explode [my belt] but it wouldn't," she said. But Rishawi's husband managed to detonate, causing the massive blast that killed dozens of wedding guests. The three coordinated hotel attacks left 58 people dead and about 100 wounded...