Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening events in a "Dump Nixon" drive, the rallies inevitably evoked the image of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 assault in New Hampshire against President Johnson, and of L.B.J.'s decision not to seek reelection. Indeed, McCarthy, hinting broadly that he might be willing to lead a third-party movement against Nixon, drew stand-up cheers when he told the Minnesota rally that if Nixon's policies do not change, it is time to "have a new party and a new policy and a true America." Yet McCarthy's presence also symbolized one of the main differences...
...backpacking as much as they could down the trail. In all, they took 380 pounds of litter to a camp at the 7,400-ft. level. Despite their good intentions, the impromptu collection barely made a dent in what is probably the earth's highest, unlikeliest garbage dump...
...parks, fish are being caught again in the Thames." He recalls a personal hero, Herbert Johnson, supervisor of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. As a minor park employee 18 years ago, Johnson was appalled at New York City's use of Jamaica Bay as a garbage dump and worked to lessen the visual pollution by planting native shrubs, bushes and trees. Now one of the major bird-watching locations in Eastern North America, the refuge has been proposed as the site of a federal recreation area. Even the pollution of the Hudson River is reversible, he says; it will...
...carrying off the mountain bit by bit is done by huge 450-ton power shovels that chew off 25-ton chunks of ore in a single bite and dump them into 75-ton trucks. The ore is then crushed and transported by 150-car, mile-long freight trains to Port Hedland, where it is loaded aboard freighters at the rate of 10,000 tons an hour. The boom has turned Port Hedland into the world's fifth busiest port...
...MeCOLOUGH: We have to show the Japanese that if they are going to dump television sets, we will put an absolute embargo on them. In my experience that is the only way the Japanese are going to negotiate. Until you get their attention, until you have the power to club them over the head, they are not going to negotiate...