Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harrelson had a destination in mind. After he convinced the commissioners of Jones County, N.C., that they could make a fortune by extracting methane gas from the trash, they agreed to let him dump 100,000 cu. yds. of rubbish into their local landfills. But when the barge with its festering cargo pulled into Morehead City, Harrelson found that the deal was off. "We told him to get the boat the hell out of North Carolina waters," said Stephen Reid of the state's solid and hazardous waste management bureau. "We have enough garbage of our own. We didn...
...Delaware. Says Ofstie: "We understand the reasons why Texaco went into Chapter 11. But we're an income-oriented investment company, and Texaco doesn't have a yield anymore. That's a problem we can't ignore." As time passes, Wall Street analysts expect that big investors will steadily dump millions of Texaco shares onto the market...
...Reagan Administration inherited the two-track decision. Some key officials would have preferred to dump it onto the ash heap of history. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the leading hard-liner, failed to prevent the Administration from accepting the two-track policy, but he won the next battle: the U.S. proposed that if the Soviets eliminated all their SS-20s, NATO would not just restrict its prospective deployment but cancel it altogether. The simplicity and boldness of the scheme appealed to Reagan, and it had the advantage of seeming to give some of the noisier Europeans what they wanted...
...river's problems begin in the boomtown of Mexicali, which since 1970 has more than doubled its size, to an estimated population of 1 million. There, an overburdened sewerage system dumps millions of gallons of raw waste daily into the 30-ft.-wide stream. Other contaminants are added to the stew as the river continues northward, churning through a garbage dump, past cattle feedlots and dairies, and within yards of ramshackle slums. On the edges of town, such classic polluters as food-processing and chemical plants dump ! organic wastes, pesticides, solvents and other chemicals into slime-filled ditches that drain...
There is a big pond on the infield of the Pompano Harness Track, and that is where Steinbrenner threatened to "dump the little guinea bastard," as he referred to Cassini, if the designer dared get in his way during the race. Steinbrenner was miffed because Cassini, who was once Jacqueline Kennedy's White House couturier, had been given the favored, inside rail position to start that race, probably in deference to his age. Cassini is 73 years old. He is a charming little man who looks like he weighs about 110 lbs., and who has aged gracefully...