Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lipkis' ideas about voluntarism have a certain earthy logic. "Scientists define pollution as energy waste. Sewage is pollution when you dump it in the ocean -- yet it's so loaded with nutrients that it could enrich any soil it is put into," he explains. "It's the same with humans. People have an immense amount of energy, but for the most part it isn't being used. The result is a kind of pollution: frustration, depression, rage, crime. Society needs that energy, and nobody is making the connection...
...hasn't already, Bush should reconsider and confront Derwinski privately before the Senate confirmation hearings. If the nominee responds with hems and haws and, as seems likely, can give no good reason for why he ignored his colleagues' pasts, Bush will have a moral obligation to dump Derwinski...
...control the volume of waste produced. Moreover, there are precious few methods of effective disposal, and each has its own drawbacks. As landfills reach capacity, new sites become scarcer and more expensive. Incinerators, burdensome investments for many communities, also have serious limitations: contaminant-laden ash residue itself requires a dump site. Rising consumer demands for more throwaway packaging add to the volume...
...geezer, who used to stay at the Royalton when it was a comfortable dump with furniture that couldn't fight back, now makes a mistake. As he sits, he tries to work too close to the bull. He swings his legs past the right horn, one of the chair's arms, and sinks down. A hideous ripping sound arrests all conversation. Does someone say, "Oh, the poor man"? Do paramedics dressed as bellboys come running with plasma and a stretcher...
...Fernald illustrate the baffling ways officials, private or public, involved in the mismanagement seem able to escape legal and financial liability for their actions. Records released last month show that when the operation began in 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission told the contractor, National Lead of Ohio, to dump radioactive refuse into pits dug in the ground, then standard practice. When rainwater caused the pits to overflow, the AEC stonewalled the contractor's suggestions for fixing the problem. In 1958 National Lead warned that liquid was leaking through concrete storage tanks that had cracked. The commission's expedient solution...