Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grace held the first of three daily meetings after sending out 800 invitations to members of the North Cambridge community, and took questions from the floor after an hour-long presentation about chemicals in the adjacent dump and plans for building offices on 17 acres of the inactive dump...
Paul M. Connor of the company's Health, Safety and Toxicology Department said that napthalene, the main ingredient in moth balls, did not cause cancer and that the dump contained a small enough quantity of the chemical so that the only adverse effect might be the odor...
...markers, as durable and detectable as England's Stonehenge monoliths. These structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence of drawings: three human figures stand by a dump site; one of them drinks from a bubbling well and falls dead...
...Best Variation on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Idea Award: to a suspicious Canaday Candidate who writes, "I've heard nasty rumors that Canaday residents get dumped into Mather. If this is so, I say we dump the House lottery." Runner up was harder to choose, because it seems as though each member of the Class of '88 is convinced that the computer which allegedly assigns him housing it secretly rigged to ship him off to the Walker St. vicinity. But the second place award in this category has to go to the Weld/Wigglesworth/Grays candidate who so eloquently expressed lotterophobia...
...special team of analysts dispatched from Washington is still picking through the wreckage, but President Reagan got a 15-minute preliminary report last week. No real dereliction is apparent, the team believes, although prudent jury-rigged security measures, like a sand-filled dump-truck blockade, might have prevented the attack. "In hindsight," says Under Secretary of State for Management Ronald Spiers, "they are dead right. But that's a degree of micromanagement you cannot conduct from Washington...