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Government and community leaders from Boston and nearby South Shore cities argued last night over possible sites for a sewage dump in an open meeting sponsored by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA...
...heat of competition, New York and New Jersey haulers slash rates, by hiring non-union labor, and dump trash from all over the nation into the ocean to beat landfill or incineration fees. Simple economics...
...agreement. An amnesty for rebels and Tamil prisoners took effect last week. Even so, compliance with the surrender seemed halfhearted. At a Jaffna air base, Sri Lankan officials received six truckloads of guerrilla weaponry, including .50- cal. machine guns, AK-47 assault rifles and homemade mortars. But the arms dump was also salted with rusty rifles and shells the Tigers would probably never use. The final turn-in rate might be as low as 40%. In that case, the Indian army may launch operations to ferret out hidden weapons...
...groups determined to topple Noriega. The work stoppage was the latest evidence of mounting pressure for Noriega's ouster. The unrest began two months ago when Diaz Herrera publicly charged Noriega with corruption, election fraud and masterminding the murder of a leading opponent. Since then, the clamor to dump Noriega has grown more insistent. Indeed, Reagan Administration officials, anxious for Noriega to step down, said privately last week that they have begun to search for a successor behind whom they could throw their support...
...getting timely information about the securities. Small-time investors generally shun stock options, futures and other risky instruments unless they have carefully constructed a way to use them as a hedge against losses in their common-stock portfolio. Finally, they frequently establish predetermined selling points at which they will dump a stock to cut their losses or capture their gains. Says Melissa Lamb, 28, a Manhattan real-estate broker who is learning the hard way: "I have picked some good ones, but I just wait and wait in the hope of a bigger profit, until all the profit evaporates...