Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group, which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world like a garbage dump," he said...
...Korea under the Demilitarized Zone that has separated the two republics since 1953. So when South Korea's Hyundai Construction Co. announced that it was making a donation to North Korea, the nature of the benevolence raised some eyebrows: a bulldozer, an excavator, a forklift, a loader and a dump truck. The North Koreans passed on the offer...
...that came to light last week, Harvard University President Derek Bok disclosed that the school has divested its holdings in tobacco companies because their products "create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings." At the City University of New York, trustees voted last week to dump its $3.5 million worth of tobacco stocks. The C.U.N.Y. divestiture was owing, in part, to the prompting of vice chairman Edith Everett, who serves on the board of a new lobbying group called the Tobacco Divestment Project, which aims to promote the sell...
While your carry-on is being X-rayed, you step through the metal detector. It screeches. You dump your coins in a tray and try again. Screech. You remove your metal-rimmed glasses. Screech. As other latecomers fidget behind you, you remove your belt -- and finally pass through. The machine is so sensitive that your tiny buckle...
...pollution is self-generated. Since 1975, East Germany has earned about $600 million in foreign exchange by serving as a landfill for Western Europe, which has major pollution problems of its own. Every day hundreds of garbage-laden trucks cross the border from West Germany and West Berlin to dump their loads. Last year they delivered 5.5 million tons of household and construction rubbish -- plus an additional 65,000 tons of garbage that contained dangerous substances. Smaller amounts of trash came from the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland...