Word: containers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mishap could not have happened at a worse time. Besides being rich in whales, otters, seals, porpoises, dolphins and many species of birds, the waters around Valdez also contain some of the best commercial fishing grounds in Alaska. The harvest that was to begin this week, when fish such as herring and pink salmon start their annual springtime runs, could be endangered...
Emergency crews placed booms in the sound to contain the spill, and the Coast Guard dropped chemicals in an attempt to break up the slick. But local officials criticized Exxon and pipeline officials for responding slowly. Doug Griffin, city manager of Valdez, said the first teams to arrive waited for a leader to show up and take charge...
...higher and higher into the cloudless Florida sky, the words of Lisa Malone, the new voice of Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...
...individuals can and should do is have their water tested for lead by a certified lab. If the level is too high, they can investigate ways to deal with the problem or switch to bottled water for drinking and cooking. Even then, caution is called for: some bottled waters contain many of the same contaminants that tap water does. The only way to know what is in the bottled water is to have it tested...
...once again, the University is giving us the same old line--that it regrets having to increase tuition, but, hey, quality costs money, you know. "Harvard strives to contain the rate of increase in tuition and fees while maintaining the quality of its undergraduate education and the physical condition of its facilities," Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence said. That statement is virtually identical to the one Spence made last year in justifying last year's 6.5 percent increase...