Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Going into the race, there were doubts about Harvard's capabilities since top runners John Murphy and Eric Schuler were out with injuries and Logan had missed the training camp. But impressive performances from middle-distance-runners-turned-harriers Dixon and Lamppa and freshman Rippy helped the Crimson dump the Huskies' depleted ranks...
...TIME correspondents who visited dozens of toxic dumps and waste sites across the country to get material for this week's cover, the story entailed some eerie hazards. "If you are reporting a riot and get hit with a bottle," says New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, a veteran of the science and environment beat, "you either come home well or you don't. But with hazardous waste, you become acutely aware of every sneeze, every rash. You wonder about being well 20 years from now." Chatting with fire fighters near a blazing Elizabeth, N.J., dump site...
...salaries, however, an oldtimer like Stalmaster can make about $150,000 a year. That is enough to have attracted several dozen highly charged, highly competitive people to the job of caster. With a few exceptions, none of them is secure, and almost on a whim a producer can dump an old hand...
...need to keep "the solemn commitment" to the party's 19.5 million primary voters. But in fact the rules fight was a raw power struggle. Snapped a Carter aide: "It's not an ideological issue. It's a pure and simple attempt by Kennedy people to dump Carter...
Despite the start of talk about Mondale or Muskie, the chief and immediate beneficiary of the dump-Carter sentiment was, of course, Ted Kennedy. His aides insisted he would do nothing to take advantage of Carter's troubles with Billy. But Kennedy spent much of his time last week at the telephone, reminding wavering Carter delegates about Reagan's impressive performance at the Republican National Convention and his strong standing in the polls...