Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McNally, along with fellow plaintiff Andy Messersmith and Curt Flood, who lost a similar case five years earlier, freed major leaguers from the shackles of the reserve clause. A federal court ruled that he did not have to report to the Montreal Expos if he did not want...
...accurate count of all the toxic-waste dumps is possible. Many reveal themselves only when a flash flood or gradual erosion exposes rusting and cracking drums. Searching for clandestine sites, some 100 EPA agents are tracking down reports of midnight dumping, or seeking out acrid odors permeating wooded acres or strange colors staining rivers and streams. So far, the EPA estimates that there are some 50,000 sites where chemicals have been dumped. The EPA believes that 2,000 of these dumps may pose serious health hazards...
...fence was first fortified in 1961, after East Germany erected the infamous Berlin Wall, to stanch an outward flood of East Germans to the West that was running at the rate of over 200,000 a year. In 1962, the first full year in which a primitive fortified fence was in place, there were 5,761 escapes across it. So far this year there have been only 147. "Today it is far safer to try and get out through a neighboring East bloc country," Ball says. "Only the truly desperate risk the so-called Death Strip...
...defense also argues that the FBI violated the defendants' right of due process by manufacturing a crime and then publicizing it with a flood of leaks. Judge Pratt will rule on this argument just before the case goes to the jury. No matter what the verdict, ABSCAM trials of four more Democratic Congressmen will begin in September. In October, Republican Congressman Richard Kelly of Florida will go on trial in Washington. His chief witness will be a psychic who plans to testify that she told Kelly to beware of FBI agents and that is why he decided to conduct...
...diverse as Henry James and Gertrude Stein, and it haunts Joyce Carol Oates throughout this vast seven-generation epic. That is not all that haunts her. Oates' twelfth novel informs the occult with Freudian insights. Boys change into hounds, men into bears; a man, swallowed by a great flood, returns decades later to be recognized only by his 100-year-old wife. One of the Bellefleurs has a habit of leaving her window open so that her lover, a vampire, can fly in. Dwarfs bowl in the valleys, rivers change course, mountains shrink, and a man walks through...