Word: dumpings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scraphog at a 743-acre site near the Hawthorne Army ammunition plant in northern Nevada. Succumbing to public pressure to clean up its old demolition ranges, the Army last year turned over to a civilian contractor the tricky business of clearing the Hawthorne site, which had become a sprawling dump for more than 30 years' worth of defective or leftover bombs. The winner of the $3.2 million contract was a small new firm based in Washington named UXB International. (UXB, which stands for "unexploded bomb," was in the title of a BBC and PBS television series.) The company...
...West German state of Lower Saxony. Social Democrat Gerhard Schroder, a candidate for minister-president, calls the vote a "people's referendum on nuclear power." Feelings on the issue are running high. Earlier this month, riot police battled demonstrators protesting the construction of a radioactive waste dump in the village of Gorleben...
Prime contributors to the growing tide of plastic pollution are the world's merchant ships, which, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, dump at least 6.6 million tons of trash overboard every year. Some 639,000 plastic containers and bags are tossed into the oceans every day. Commercial fishermen are also major offenders. Estimates of the plastic fishing gear lost or discarded at sea every year range as high as 150,000 tons. Boaters and beachgoers add to the marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging...
...what is the right formula? Not everyone is threatened by a nuclear waste dump in his backyard. The Baby Boomers remain exceedingly leery of conventional politicians. Though Eugene McCarthy's "children's crusade" helped speed Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969, the slow wind down of the Viet Nam War and the depressing revelations of Watergate, not to mention images of assassinated heroes burned into their brainpans by TV, turned off many Baby Boomers to politics just as they were reaching voting age. Voter participation among Baby Boomers remained well below the national average into...
Marcos is gone; Baby Doc too. So why not dump all the other dictators? Because democracy is not that easy to transplant...