Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spill resulted in damages and cleanup expenses that cost the French as much as $95 million. Local communities suffered losses of an additional $30 million. About 6,000 volunteers, aided by French soldiers, skimmed, scooped and sucked up 25,000 tons of crude from beaches, rocks and harbor floors. Nonetheless, some 10,000 shore birds died from the effects of the spill, and some 5,000 tons of contaminated oysters had to be destroyed...
Harvard held on in the top of the eighth as B.U.'S leadoff hitter popped to short. The next B.U. bitter, however, hitting cleanup, put a scare into the batwomen as she tripled. Luckily the Crimson survived the threat when the next two Terriers flied out to right fielder Mary McKinnon...
President Reagan promptly pledged federal disaster relief for the stricken areas, and neighbors of the homeless provided food, clothing and shelter. Unhappily, though, the darker side of human as well as physical nature was on display. Cleanup efforts on Thursday were hindered by traffic jams that backed up two to three miles on either side of the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The cars were packed with families out for some ghoulish sightseeing. -By George J. Church. Reported by Richard Hornik/Boston and JohnE. Yang/Atlanta, with other bureaus
Building and Grounds workers began cleanup and repair yesterday morning and should finish the job by tonight said structural foreman James F. Caruso...
...campaign to win back official and public trust for Three Mile Island is even further behind schedule. Investigators for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have raised questions about safety procedures being followed by some of the cleanup crews. A federal grand jury has charged Metropolitan Edison with criminal misconduct in connection with its operation of the plant in the months preceding the accident. Among other things, the company is accused of having manipulated and falsified tests relating to leaks and then concealing the problem from...