Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larry Brown got up from the lunch table in the Freshman Union to dump his tray and get ready for afternoon practice. What type of person nowadays pushes money aside and talks of family, about friendship, talks to raindrops, all without reference to "competition" or "All Those Fans", all the while silently confident in his talent...
...purpose of such technological derring-do? To create the ultimate garbage dump. Because of the strange physics at the black hole's boundary zone, waste material dropped toward it would only be partially consumed; some of the material would be flung back out at much greater speed. This material could be caught and its extra energy harnessed, like rushing water, to power the civilization. The only hitch: the engineers would have to be careful not to "feed" the black hole too much garbage, lest its event horizon expand and swallow up the whole civilization...
...expected that the Red Line will be able to carry passengers from Harvard Square, to Porter Square, up past the city dump, to the aforementioned Alewife...
...what Roberts terms "typical college material": beer steins and wine bottle fragments. Many of the artifacts date from the 1600s. In addition to the Harvard Hall site, artifacts were found by Grays Hall and Wadsorth House. Roberts said that the latter site seems to have been the town dump, which is an archaeologist's treasure trove...
...Sell more Treasury gold, and try to persuade other governments to dump some of their hoards. Gold sales by the Treasury and the International Monetary Fund so far have been too small to affect the price much. The world's central banks and the IMF hold 40,000 tons of gold, about half the total ever mined. If a significant amount were thrown onto the market, the price would be knocked down hard, perhaps to $100 an ounce or so. As the dollar gained in value against gold, it might also rise against foreign currencies as well. But central...