Word: dumpings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investors have cabled sell orders, trying to dump shares in the British market. The Financial Times stock index drops 304 points by midday. Says a young dealer: "It is like opening a suitcase the wrong way and having all the contents spill...
Although Down East voters defeated two earlier proposals to close the plant, the antinuke campaign received a boost last year, when the U.S. Department of Energy identified Maine as a possible site of a radioactive waste dump. Now many residents fear that the only way to block the dump is to shut Maine Yankee, which stores its waste on site while sending half of its electricity out of state. Utility companies have shelled out $3 million for ads to save the facility, while antiplant forces have spent $500,000, making it the most expensive political campaign in Maine history...
...Carl Krebsbach, holding it was wrong the way you "build things up." It was perfectly true he had to miss the homecoming parade the time his daughter Carla was elected queen because he was digging up his parents' old septic tank and transporting it to the town dump. But, he said, it was just a . . . well, prevarication to say that hauling his load of "thirty years of family history" (nice phrase), he made a wrong turn and ran smack-dab into the National Guard tank that was Carla's float in the parade...
...Harvard days, I only drank coffee after Sunday brunch at my grandparents' house. My mother would pour me half a cup of coffee, half a cup of cream, and dump in five tablespoons of sugar...
...NCAR, is one significant advantage. "They are experimental tools that allow us to test our hypotheses," he says. "We can ask such questions as 'What happens when a big volcano like El Chichon goes off?' and 'How much will the earth warm up by 2030 if we continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere...