Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taking up station at Diego Garcia, the ships will constitute a prepositioned mobile "supply dump" should the President order any part of the new 110,000 man Rapid Deployment Force into action in the region...
...Dousers & Sign Reversers. Literary and artistic work is just a part of the swath of destruction left by carefree vacationers. They tear out bathroom fixtures and pull up flowering plants. They use blasting powder to collect specimens of Indian hieroglyphics. They feed chocolate-covered laxatives to bear cubs and dump detergent into geysers. Sometimes they block up geysers with rocks and logs. They reverse signs on trails-a form of humor that has led to at least one near fatality. In Gettysburg they love to push over monuments...
...return. The only Soviet exports sold easily abroad, in addition to vodka, are raw materials such as petroleum and gold. Despite attractive prices for Yak-40 passenger jets or Lada cars, Western countries have shown little interest in low-quality, dowdy Soviet merchandise. The Soviets usually are forced to dump their exports on the soft-currency countries of Eastern Europe or the Third World...
...couple of dozen Soviet painters carried their canvases into a patch of wasteland in Cheremushki, an outlying district of Moscow, and began to set them up on makeshift stands. A small crowd of onlookers gathered, and so, to one side, did a platoon of KGB agents with bulldozers, dump trucks and water cannon. The secret policemen were disguised as civilians doing volunteer work on the abandoned site. As the spectators peered at the paintings and a few Western reporters clicked their cameras, the agents attacked, flinging the canvases into rubbish trucks. Then the bulldozers and water cannon moved in, grinding...
...longer. "There just aren't enough people willing to take them in," says Marisol Alegret, a worker with the International Rescue Committee, one of half a dozen placement agencies helping out. And those who do volunteer as sponsors must be carefully screened. "We don't want to dump these refugees," says Jan Pittman, regional director of the U.S. Catholic Conference, who regularly turns down requests from those looking only for cheap Cuban help. "This isn't like going to the humane society...