Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week in their sometimes overzealous efforts to keep "Sewergate" sizzling. Democrats culled EPA documents, looking for a trail of evidence that would lead to the White House. On Thursday the White House, which had long insisted that its files contained no internal reports on the notorious Stringfellow toxic dump in California, admitted that it did have two EPA reports confirming that Burford prepared to announce a grant to clean up Stringfellow last year but changed her mind at the last minute. There have been charges that the Administration delayed the cleanup in an effort to hurt the Senate campaign...
Didion writes of a visit to a "body dump" outside of San Salvador, not unlike garbage dumps in this country--with the sole exception that human remains replace refuse. Overlooking the dump on a hill, Didion came across a man teaching a woman to drive, with three small children looking...
...speak, and it was only later, down the mountain and back in the land of the provisionally living, that it occurred to me that there was a definite question about why a man and a woman might choose a well-known body dump for a driving lesson. This was one of the number of occasions, during the two weeks my husband and I spent in EI Salvador, on which I came to understand, in a way I had not understood before, the exact mechanism of terror...
...agency has furthermore demonstrated incompetence at the highest levels, both in allowing waste producers to dump the materials haphazardly in the easiest manner and at the lowest cost--which often means into a city sewer system or a municipal garbage dump--and in not pressing for legislation of better methods of waste disposal...
...market his creation in 1973 and jauntily christened it Anti-Monopoly. Parker Brothers, which has been making Monopoly since 1935, warned him in two "hellfire and brimstone" letters to change the name. After one court ruled against Anspach, Parker Brothers buried 40,000 copies of Anti-Monopoly in a dump in Minnesota. But a U.S. appeals court eventually ruled in favor of the professor, holding that the name Monopoly had become generic and that a trademark is lost when it "primarily denotes a product, not the product's producer." Parker Brothers tried a final roll of the dice...