Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of these publications, the motive is strictly commercial. Publishers -- sometimes with little or no consultation with their editorial counterparts -- just set up shop and dump the contents of their titles into a file and send it off. The entry fee is relatively low: setting up a site on the World Wide Web can cost as little as $5,000 -- a pittance compared with the cost of a printing plant. In addition, existing online services pay publications for the right to post their journalists' prepaid contents, and some publications charge for access directly. Many online users are happy to surf...
...with a permanent population of around 25,000, is a case in point. As late as 1987, the village pumped its raw sewage through leaking pipes less than a mile out to sea, where it was laying waste to the nearby reefs and fishing grounds. Outside town, a waste dump had grown into what locals called "Mount Trashmore...
...then that the EPA mandated that the village lay new pipes, erect a sewage-treatment plant, close the dump and build an incinerator. While the EPA eventually footed $18 million of the initial $32 million expense of the treatment plant, the village was forced to raise utility bills to pay the rest, and the costs associated with the improvements continue to climb. That helped bring Key West's cost of living to the highest level in the state, forcing many "conches"-native Key Westers-to move away. Even so, John Jones, the village engineer, admits "it was something the city...
...utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump. But no; later the wife and son force the loony to admit that he never collected any cans whatsoever, in fear that any such exhibit would fall short of perfection...
...Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump.'' As the top official of the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, he did just that. With his vision of satellite towns around the capital, interconnecting highways, a suburban rail link to the city and a more efficient system of municipal boundaries, Delouvrier developed a Paris that is often cited...