Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...status (one night he proposed a new theme song: Stand By Your Man); to reporters, he complained bitterly about the lack of support from NBC executives. On the Letterman show, the star genially deflected gibes from guests about his future; backstage, his advocates lobbied hard to persuade NBC to dump Jay and give the Tonight show job to Dave...
...blow in a three-year campaign to crush the predominantly Muslim state's bid for independence. In retaliation for the killing of one soldier, paramilitary forces rampaged through Sopore's market setting buildings ablaze and shooting bystanders. The Indian government pronounced the event "unfortunate" and claimed that an ammunition dump had been hit by gunfire, setting off fires that killed most of the victims...
...development of cities fostered competition among humans and alienation from nature. The price of a city's greatness is an uneasy balance between vitality and chaos, health and disease, enterprise and corruption, art and iniquity. The Elizabethan London that nurtured Shakespeare, after all, was a fetid dump cloaked with coal dust...
...present discard rate, Tokyo will run out of dump sites by 1995. The city has been building artificial islands in Tokyo Bay to hold garbage, but cannot continue to do so without threatening both the fishing and shipping industries. Some critics argue that in its obsession with technology, the government has chosen the wrong tack. Notes Keisuke Amagusa, editor of the journal Technology and People: "The government is focusing on garbage collected and not doing anything to reduce the garbage created...
Since her death, Hesse has been the object of some mythmaking. She kept diaries, mostly fragmentary. These served her not only as a way of working out ideas but also as a dump for emotional neediness, frustration, the difficulty of achieving clarity in her work, the fear of madness, pain and death. As an "explanation" of Hesse's art, they have limited value. It's not uncommon to run across people who imagine that Hesse, a highly intelligent artist with deep wells of melancholy and self-doubt, actually committed suicide or was in some way immolated on the altars...