Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet bugs. The sophistication of the overall system made the Americans realize they had underrated the Soviets; they weren't even sure how the various electronic parts they had found worked together. The Bracy confession landed in this explosive environment like a lighted match in a munitions dump. "There was a hysteria about it," says a recently retired official. "There had been a series of underestimations of what the Soviets could do. So when someone comes in and dramatically overestimates, anyone who criticizes that is put in the same category as those who underestimated it in the past...
...incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity was the biggest risk of all. "We had to move before the clay hardened," says his chief of staff, William Kristol...
...nearly 22 years in the department. "There are guys literally jumping on our car hoods to sell us crack, but there's no money to pay informants or make buys. We have the highest homicide rate in the state, and people come across from Missouri to buy crack and dump bodies here. The bad guys know we can't handle...
...afford new bulbs for its traffic lights. Parking meters work, but nobody feeds them because there is no money to hire meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer accepts jobs in East St. Louis because customers there don't pay their bills...
...plastic-recycling operation. The facility, which will open in 1990, will separate and clean 40 million lbs. of the material a year. But that will only dent the problem: the U.S. annually produces 1.6 billion lbs. of plastic soda, milk and water bottles, enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York City to Cleveland...