Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soil in a W.R. Grace and Co. chemical landfill. Going undetected, the acidic soil would have eventually eroded any construction on the site. However, after months of negotiations, the MBTA and the chemical company finally settled. They are now jointly neutralizing and removing the more than 10,000 cubic feet of contaminated soil, but the bargaining slowed the construction for weeks...
...Cascades' Mount Lassen, 400 miles to the south, spit up a shower of mud and stones in 1914. Had last week's explosion occurred in a heavily populated area, the loss of life would have been awesome. Geologists estimated that St. Helens spewed out about 1.5 cubic miles of debris, a blast on about the same order of magnitude as the one in A.D. 79 from Italy's Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum with...
...play a perfect entertainment above all else. Neither Sellars nor the ART actors are shy of sight-gags; in just one extraordinarily droll mime sequence, Stephen Rowe's embarassed Bobchinsky, stranded in front of the curtain with a broken nose, loses his only companion on the stage--a cubic wooden platform that descends as he leans on it--and shuffles nervously, disconsolately offstage...
Riley said he hopes to reduce the level of waste accepted at the Chem Nuclear site--one of three operating in the country--from 250,000 in 1979 to 100,000 cubic ft. per month by late 1981. He added that the two-year time period would allow nuclear-waste-producing states to establish their own burial sites...
Under the Harvard proposal, the power plant's diesel engines would have to be throttled back if the plant's nitrogen dioxide emissions exceed 320 micrograms per cubic meter--the safety level which Fierra established in his decision...