Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to contain the leak, the Fire Department cut off the ammonia feed to the factory's refrigeration system in the basement...
...response to the complaints, Bruck said, the advisory board recommended that the park contain only several trees and ground cover. There would be no seating within the site, she said...
...four-story building would be constructed on the site and would contain 60,000 square feet of retail space, according to W. Easley Hemner, president of Stubbins Associates...
...vast expanses contain natural oddities and wonders. In the far north, climate and physics conspire to defy common sense. Lakes wander up to 10 ft. a year as their waters accumulate summer heat and melt the edges of their permafrost boundaries. Summer melting of the upper layers of the permafrost also allows leaves frozen since the Pleistocene era to return to their slow-motion decay. For years scientists were puzzled by the age of methane gases released from arctic lakes, which radiocarbon dating revealed to be more than 10,000 years old. Mammoths that strode the earth in millenniums past...
...forensic expert testified in the O.J. Simpson murder trial that blood on victim Ron Goldman's clothing could have come from a shoe--but not the Bruno Magli shoe that prosecutors contend was worn by the killer. There was still no ruling on the admissibility of tapes that allegedly contain racist remarks and confessions of evidence planting by recently retired L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness. Fuhrman's lawyer said his client might seek Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination if he takes the stand again...