Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whirlpool. Nick Maneuso's Eli handsome and well groomed enough to be a Ken doil, and he's just as dull lot awhile, but blanketed intensity and final indignation are all the mere effective in the end Heartbreakers is updated look at Nathanael West The Day of the "dream dump," modern day Los Angeles, those who state are all dissatisfied and spend she then days and might pretending they...
...from the routine jungle hazards there is an additional problem: the excavation contains what Army Lieut. Colonel Joseph B. Harvey describes as "a significant amount" of live ammunition. It has been piled inside a display area marked off by yellow ribbons. The team's two ordnance-disposal specialists will dump it back into the fully excavated hole at week's end and blow...
...circus is "Lamarck's Educated Apes." This Monsieur Lamarck is a wife beater and a drunk; he also bears the name of the French naturalist whose theory of evolution through the transmission of acquired learning was overturned by Darwinism. So the new Lamarck's chimps get smart enough to dump him and demand a new, better contract. Before the possible significance of this liberating but unscientific development can be absorbed, other diverting calamities ensue...
...long favored salt formations because they are free of water, tend to reseal if fractured, and handle heat well. But farmers fear that their deep aquifers, used to irrigate crops, might become contaminated. In a state survey of 1,000 area residents, 73% said they would resist placing the dump there, and only 4% favored...
...Bureau of Land Management tract. A volcanic-rock formation 1,500 ft. below the surface would house the waste. Opponents believe that nuclear blasts at the test range could disturb the buried materials. Robert Revert, who owns gas stations in Beatty, estimates that 90% of local residents favor the dump. Says he: "Our young people are out of work. Maybe we could turn this around with Yucca Mountain...