Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth and tossed obscuring dust into the air, blocking sunlight and lowering ground temperatures. Clemens counters that dinosaurs living up north would hardly have noticed the difference, let alone be wiped out. Says he: "It doesn't matter if your long winter night is the result of an asteroid cloud or just a seasonal period of darkness...
...company's public image were not blackened enough, Union Carbide suffered another toxic leak last week. A cloud of hydrochloric acid escaped from its South Charleston, W. Va., plant, briefly threatening 60,000 people attending an outdoor festival. But this time the company acted swiftly and efficiently. An emergency squad sprayed the chemical with water to dilute it, and no one was seriously injured. Union Carbide can only hope that last week's painful cutbacks will be just as effective...
...These guys are like a cross section of America, with every ethnic, racial and religious group represented," said Karl Wallburg, their boss at the George Hantscho Co. press manufacturing plant. "It's like a fairy tale, and all of us here, even those who didn't win, are on cloud nine...
...emergency meeting of the Winthrop House Committee, several students raised issues which cloud the recent convening of the committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR): (1) the validity of the committee as a body separate from, but empowered equally to the Administrative Board; (2) the election of members and the appropriateness of students serving on the committee; (3) the validity of the committee conceptually; and (4) the operation of the committee and the violations of students' natural rights as citizens of this country...
...pine. The frame becomes a prison for a sign of traditional vastness, the 19th century view of limitless America. But look closer and the ideal landscape is fatally cankered, the America of Natty Bumppo is no more: acid rain has stripped the needles off the pine, or a sinister cloud spreads upward from a distant ground zero. Technical perfection evokes a compromised world...