Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Methane from cattle feedlots will be very difficult to collect, but the gas in garbage landfills is already being tapped and burned at many sites around the U.S. At the Fresh Kills landfill on New York City's Staten Island, for example, methane that would otherwise have escaped into the air is being collected by a gas company and used to heat thousands of homes. The technique essentially involves driving a pipe into the depths of the garbage, then trapping the gas that rushes out. This should be done at all landfills...
...waterfall. But the sleek municipal building in Machida, a bustling city in central Japan, is not a pristine botanical garden. The enticing entrance is merely the facade of a $65 million facility built to handle a dirty job: recycling the wastes of the city's 340,000 residents. "We collect roughly 100,000 tons of garbage a year and convert it back into valuable materials," says a smiling Kenichi Usui, a city waste-management official. He has good reason to be boastful. Japan, which is fast becoming the world's premier industrial power, is also in the forefront of effective...
...presiding officer shall be elected by the students of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. Any student who has served on the council shall be eligible, providing they collect signatures from 100 undergraduates. Elections for presiding officer shall be held concurrently with the election of the representatives. If no candidate receives a simple majority, a run-off election shall be held between the two leading candidates...
Gary P. Murdoch, a Harvard graduate student who organized the campaign, said the Red Cross expected to collect 775 pints of blood but said student volunteers plan to reach their goal of 1000 pints by the drive's end on Thursday...
...play was described by several audience members as chilling and thought-provoking. "I'm not sure I can collect my views about the play right now," said Joseph McCarthy, executive assistant to the dean at the K-School and faculty coordinator for persons with disabilities...