Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history they made will, with any luck for the Crimson nine, repeat itself throughout this season, as they pounded out 13 hits to dump a very unprepared Engineer squad...
...Electric Corporation supplies half the power for its turbine plant in Lynn. Mass. with steam from a $50-million garbage-converstion plant north of Boston, facility, built by the Wheelabrator-Frye Company at the suggestion of General Electric, generates steam from the 11 communities and three Boston districts that dump garbage nearby...
Last night in Yale's Payne-Whitney gymnasium, though, things got a bit sticky toward the end, and the Crimson had to wait till overtime to dump the Elis...
...been strong because some holders of gold are selling the metal out of fear that it now faces a long slide. The U.S. Treasury estimates that 14,000 to 16,000 tons of gold, worth about $240 billion at current prices, are in private hands worldwide. If the goldbugs dump only a small portion of their holdings and buy dollars, that transaction can have a very large impact on both the price of gold and the value of the American currency...
...make decisions that might affect their own financial interests. The 1978 act puts real teeth into that idea, requiring a more detailed disclosure of assets and thus opening up a broad range of hitherto ignored potential conflicts. In addition, the new law makes it much harder for officials to dump their holdings into a blind trust. Under that arrangement, a trustee exercises control over the assets, theoretically shielding the officeholder from conflicts of interest. Yet these devices tended to be what former Senator Abe Ribicoff called "blind trusts with 20/20 vision." The official often knew what he held...