Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard currently faces the same asbestos waste problem as the rest of Massachusetts, DiBerardinis said. No dump cites accept asbestos in the state and it is illegal to take it across state lines, he explained...
Little was decided--after two hours of discussion, Francis Duehay '55 suggested that the city Biohazards Committee make a full report on the issue, which first arose two months ago when waste began piling up at universities in Cambridge after the temporary closing of the nation's two dump sites...
University officials stressed that the crisis is mostly over. "The Washington dump will reopen soon," Walter Milne, an MIT spokesman, said, adding that MIT had never been in immediate danger of having to stop research efforts...
...decent neighborhoods invariably touch off protests. Most gypsies are confined to ghettos; in Bad Hersfeld, a town of 30,000 near the East German border, 200 gypsies live in old refugee housing that lacks hot water and indoor toilets and is so overrun by rats from a nearby garbage dump that children are not allowed out at night. In summer, when gypsies take to the highways in camper trucks as wandering salesmen and secondhand dealers, the treatment that they encounter is especially rough. Owners of almost 90% of West Germany's campsites, claiming that the gypsies would pester vacationers...
...tragically wrong. The DC-10 touched down on the closed runway and headed toward a dump truck. Gilbert apparently realized his mistake and tried, too late, to lift the DC-10 back into the air. The plane smashed into the truck, veered wildly to the right, wound up slamming into an Eastern Air Lines maintenance building and burst into flames. The final death count was 73: a total of 60 passengers, eleven crew members, including Gilbert, and two people on the ground...