Word: clay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire span of most of our conscious lives either Muhammad Ali or Cassius Clay was heavyweight champion of the world, or should have been. How abhorred in our imagination it is! None of the dogs are leashed anymore. It's almost certain that Ronald Reagan is going to be president. And it's going to be a very hard winter, very hard indeed. Ali, Ali, lama sabachthani...
...grow as fast as the neighborhoods to the east, got its start in the 1830s when a cattle market settled there, soon spawning a stockyard, inns, taverns, and even a racetrack. Water shortages prevented much native industry from springing up, except for brickmaking concerns, which benefited from the clay in the soil...
Muhammad Ali has been the underdog before, but never like this. Even as he boasts, some of the innate confidence of Cassius Clay is gone. Ali believes he has performed a "miracle" by losing 30 pounds. What he may discover, however, is that this fat was covering up an untoned body. The flab has disappeared, but that does not mean that the strength and reflexes have returned. Ali says he is in the best shape of his career. At 38, this simply cannot...
...producers, the users and the ultimate disposers of the chemicals have not been required to keep records on what they did with waste material. Most companies stack it in barrels on back lots. Some pay haulers to cart it to reprocessing plants, high-temperature incinerators or landfills where thick clay linings prevent chemicals from leaching into the earth...
...long. The bottom and sides of the excavation were formed of coarse beach sand, which would have allowed chemicals to filter down to the aquifer lying 80 ft. or less below the surface. Therefore, Hooker is lining the vault with 10-ft.-thick walls of compacted clay. The vault will rise five stories into the air. "A monument to stupidity," snorts Marion Dawson, a leader in the long fight to force Hooker to clean...