Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Dallas Lawyer-Businessman Robert Strauss was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, Dec. 18), many McGovernites prepared for the worst. They expected him to do to them what they had done to so many of their adversaries in the party-dump them. But that is not his style of politics. Since his election three weeks ago, he has been trying to bring some cohesion to the fractured Democrats. In fact, he wants the party to be a family ball. "Goddam!" he says. "Let's make this party a place where you can have a laugh...
...bite to these Agnew-like barks, Whitehead revealed that the Administration will submit a bill to Congress that would dump responsibility for alleged network transgressions directly on the nation's nearly 600 network-affiliated local stations. "Station managers and network officials who fail to act to correct imbalance or consistent bias from the networks-or who acquiesce by silence-can only be considered willing participants," said Whitehead, "to be held fully accountable by the broadcaster's community at license-renewal time...
Some Western observers speculate that the Soviets preferred to let Chalidze out of Russia in order to dump an embarrassing dissident. The next step, Sovietologists believe, will be a Soviet press campaign calculated to discredit him with followers in Russia by claiming that he acted disloyally...
...oceans that cover two-thirds of the earth's surface are its biggest dump. The theory has always been that the seas could absorb any amount of filth and sewage, but leading scientists have repeatedly warned that the waters' capacity to purify lethal industrial wastes is limited and that poisons entering the marine food cycle become concentrated in fish...
...handle the big loads, the new waste companies must be markedly different from the old, small-time collectors, with their rusted-out dump trucks trundling loads of melon rinds and empty bottles to their final rest in the city dump. The modern companies process refuse by shredding, compacting or baling it before hauling it to landfills, which cost $4,000 to $10,000 an acre. The companies operate fleets of $25,000 tractors, $35,000 trucks and $80,000 bulldozers. Unable to afford these capital outlays, many of the nation's 10,000 small collection companies are merging with...