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...winks at the common practice of scalping those tickets. For the recent Sugar Bowl, Alabama Split End Wayne Wheeler hoped to get $100 per seat. At Alabama, the custom is so established that there is an unwritten rule requiring players who still have tickets on Thursdays before games to dump them at any price, so that they can concentrate on practice...
Plans have also been made for some demonstrators to board the Beaver II from boats and dump empty oil cans into Boston Harbor to protest the oil shortage...
These fears were exaggerated; nevertheless, Sam Adams led a meeting of the patriots that decided to enlist the aid of the South End Mob of Boston and dump tea from three British cargo ships into Boston Harbor. "Many persons," an exultant John Adams wrote at the time, "wish that as many dead carcasses were floating in the harbor as there are chests of tea." The effect of the action, conclude historians Morrison and Commager, was to commit the patriots once and for all to the use of violent means against the British oppressors...
...questioned KP&L's estimate of the sulfur content of the coal for the plant; and, KP&L's own estimate that the plant will burn 1600 tons of coal per hour, take and never return over one-third of the volume of water in the Kansas River, and dump 60,000 tons of sulfur dioxide into...
Last month's Dump Truck presented a series of articles on superpower imperialism. The different perspectives tried to trace the changing ways in which the world's most powerful nations established empires. Although complex networks of financial, political, and cultural institutions have replaced colonial governments as common agents of imperial control, the consequences of imperialism are much the same today as they always were: economic dependence, political control, social inequality, cultural repression, and pure and simple human suffering...