Word: dumpster
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...officer was sent to the courtyard of the Kirkland House Annex after receiving a report of a dumpster fire. The Cambridge Fire Department extinguished the fire...
Students in the Kirkland House Annex evacuated their dorms early Saturday when a dumpster in the Annex courtyard caught on fire...
According to Kirkland House Superintendent Scott Haywood, who assessed the situation Saturday morning, the fire burned only the trash inside the dumpster...
...HUPD officer removed a noisy individual from a Perkins Hall dumpster...
Homeless people who scavenge garbage bins for food have for years been said to be "Dumpster diving." But now the term has morphed to describe an unscrupulous business practice: rummaging through a competitor's trash for inside information. It's a low-tech form of corporate espionage that has increased since 1988, when the Supreme Court ruled that once it leaves private property, trash is fair game. Last year Procter & Gamble, whose products include Pantene and Head & Shoulders shampoos, admitted Dumpster diving for information about Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever, makers of Finesse and Helene Curtis. Dumpster diving is also practiced...