Word: dumpster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have piled up in waterfront warehouses in New Jersey, and a congressional committee has heard testimony that the nationwide figure tops 100 million tons. At the Pentagon, employees looking out over the parking lot can watch paper they've carefully segregated in the office being tossed into a single Dumpster, destined for an incinerator. The used-glass market has been so soft that Waste Management of Seattle, Inc. is stuck with a mini-mountain of 6,000 tons of bottles from neighborhood collections. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, haulers have run out of storage space and are incinerating some...
...keep all politics out," says Billingsley. "But I couldn't do that. Too much of black life is politics." Last summer he tackled the issues of drug abuse and teenage pregnancy in a series of panels in which Curtis' younger brother discovered a crack baby abandoned in a Dumpster by its 14- year-old mother. Curtis' father takes the baby to the hospital and, with Cosby-like wisdom, reminds his sons -- and the readers -- of the horrors of drug...
Michael, from Wisconsin, who is about 40, has a subsistence job taking care of animals in a pet store. He guesses that 5% to 10% of the Rainbows are street people or rural itinerants. Some are "Dumpster divers," who scrounge for food behind restaurants and supermarkets. A larger number live middle- class lives, often with jobs in the social services. And the majority are people in their 20s who work but feel estranged from house-and-mortgage society...
...second book dropped off best-seller lists. Forbes evicted him from its annual list of the 400 richest Americans. And he was forced to begin restructuring $100 million in bank loans to his troubled Atlantic City casinos. Curiosity mounts. Is the Trumpster headed for the Dumpster...
...complaints leveled against Harvard allegedthat the asbestos was not removed beforedemolition, which released dry, crumbling asbestosinto the air; the construction area was not sealedand the debris was dropped down a chute into anopen dumpster...