Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Electric shovels that weigh as much as 3 million lbs. eat into the hillsides while dump trucks carrying 160 tons of coal roar out of the pits 24 hours a day. During the first year of operation in 1977, Arco took 40,000 tons out of its Black Thunder mine. It has now extracted 1 1 million tons, and will take out 20 million tons...
...subway kiosk rests on the remains of an early 18th-century meeting house that was converted to a dumping ground when fire destroyed it in the 1830s. Artifacts from the dump site may be important because they could reveal the socio-economic backgrounds of local inhabitants, Russell Barber, the research director for the ICA, said last week...
...will begin only if Valerie Talmege, state archaeologist, considers the site to be archaeologically valuable. Rubbish trucked in from other areas to the dump site may cause problems in determining the origins of artifacts from the site. Talmege said last week, adding that this could be a reason for her not to approve...
Currier needed only a 55 yd. touchdown completion from Jon Ealy to Keith Woods to dump Stiles-Morse 6-0. And as the sun set on this season's House football action, John Marston, Aaron Dean, and Wayne McDuffy scored touchdowns in Winthrop-Leverett's 19-0 sinking of Davenport-Pierson...
...dispute was just another chapter in the long, frustrating history of MATEP. From the beginning, the idea had been a disaster, the project cursed and damned. The first administrative vice president to take charge of the project had hired an incompetent consulting firm--and Harvard had been forced to dump both of them. The power plant, at a cost of more than $230 million, was already the single most expensive project ever undertaken by any university--and Harvard's officials were still struggling to settle long-term financing. For four years, Harvard had been paying through the nose...