Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storybook Niagara Falls housewife, baking homemade bread, keeping a spotless kitchen and raising her family in the neighborhood known locally as Love Canal. But in 1978 Lois Gibbs' life took an abrupt turn. That was when she became convinced that the toxic goo seeping from an abandoned chemical- waste dump three blocks from her home was making her children -- and those of her neighbors -- sick. Stymied by stonewalling corporate and government bureaucrats, she summoned strengths and talents she did not know she had. Over a period of two years, Gibbs knocked on doors, passed out petitions, gave speeches, hounded public...
...direction of the underlying economic forces," says C. Fred Bergsten, director of Washington's Institute for International Economics. To prop up the yen, the Bank of Japan first tried intervening in foreign-exchange markets, spending $10 billion, or 17% of the country's currency reserves, to buy yen and dump dollars. Since that proved futile, the central bank last week boosted the key discount rate by a full percentage point, to 5.25%. That is modest enough by U.S. standards, but a huge increase from last May's 2.5% rate...
...Drexel, after all, was more than just a tough competitor; it was viewed as a bad influence. Last year the company agreed to pay a $650 million fine and pleaded guilty to six counts of mail and securities fraud. As part of the settlement, federal prosecutors required Drexel to dump Milken, who now faces a 98-count fraud and racketeering indictment. "The era of extravagance and insanity has come to an end," says economist Pierre Rinfret, who runs a Wall Street consulting firm. "This is a breath of fresh air. Drexel got what it deserved. These guys could destroy...
...bold move that David Park, a young instructor at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, made one day in 1949. He gathered up all his abstract-expressionist canvases and, in an act that has gone down in local legend, drove to the Berkeley city dump and destroyed them. Park had become disenchanted with abstract expressionism's strict, non-representational regimen. He wanted, as he put it, to stop producing "paintings" and start painting "pictures." Two years later, he submitted a clearly representational work, Kids on Bikes, 1950, to a competitive show -- and won, to the astonishment...
...Antarctic Peninsula is particularly in demand, with 13 stations; King George Island, one of the South Shetland Islands, is home to an additional eight. Planes, helicopters, snowmobiles, trucks and bulldozers are in constant operation throughout the summer. Nearly every base has its own helipad, landing strip, harbor and waste dump...