Word: core
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...contaminated with a mix of copper, lead, arsenic, zinc, cadmium and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chemicals once widely used by the ( electrical-equipment industry. "The bottom of this bay is a chart of industrial history," says Thomas Hubbard, a water-quality planner for Seattle. "If you took a core sample, you could date the Depression, World War II. You could see when PCBs were first used and when they were banned and when lead was eliminated from gasoline." Commencement Bay, Tacoma's main harbor, is the nation's largest underwater area designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as a Superfund site...
Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, reflects that innocent era before AstroTurf, designated hitters and utility infielders with multimillion-dollar contracts. But every middle-aged baseball fan can still appreciate the Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price...
...white leadership that was at least pragmatic. Now it is said to be a land of opportunity for black managers -- who, during the day, mix easily with whites. It also has a huge black underclass reflected in a poverty rate that is the second highest of any American core city. When I lived in Atlanta, at the height of the struggle, the interests of poor black people and well-off black people seemed identical. To some extent, their interests still coincide. But a poor black person living in a crumbling slum may have good reason to feel that triumphs...
...century that it was the first suburb in America to resist the cumbrous embraces of a major metropolis. The defiant localness and privacy remain, along with a communal apartness and vigilant self-government. The Brookline Citizen is aptly named. The '50s sense of asocial privacy never reached the inmost core of Brookline...
...last of the hard conservative core was going to leave his side. Reagan had been tipped off by Meese that he would probably not stay until the end of the term. But the President did not know Meese would act just then. Reagan did not protest. "Well, Ed," said Reagan, "if that's your decision . . ." Little else was said...