Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to stomach the consequences. An estimated 300,000 gal. of pizza waste, made up of excess flour, cheese, pepperoni, tomato paste and meat particles, backed up in Wellston's sewage-treatment plant. The sludge filled one of two 250,000-gal. holding tanks and began to flow into the other. The waste, high in acid content, could not be buried in its gooey form, and the city lacked the equipment to deal with the problem. Says City Safety Director Richard Devlin: "We knew we were running out of time...
...made the hiding of records easier for civil and military bureaus while, at the same time, undermining the 1966 Freedom of Information Act that was designed to give citizens better access not to secret but to "ordinary" Government information. Viewing particularly the Administration's move to restrict the flow of scientific information, Congressman George Brown Jr. of the House Science and Technology Committee says that the effect could be "to shoot ourselves in the foot...
Communities that fail to do so face the prospect of having human waste flow untreated into rivers or even back up into basements. Robert Silvus, head of the waste-water section of the Texas department of water resources, describes the situation delicately: "There are parts of the year when our water is effluent-dominated...
...same time, the oil shock and tighter credit sent the industrialized economies into a recession that sparked industrial production cuts, ballooned unemployment and set off a chorus of calls for protectionism to stem the flow of imports from the Third World (see ESSAY). Demand for the developing nations' products, mainly raw materials, slumped. As a consequence, between 1980 and today, world commodity prices, excluding oil, have fallen by 35% to the lowest real levels in three decades. Sugar, a principal Brazilian export, dropped from $495 to $120 per ton; Zambia's copper price plunged from...
...Jonglei project, named after the nearly inaccessible province it crosses, is being built to carry needed water to Sudan's arid north and to Egypt. The channel could irrigate some 600,000 acres of land by diverting 30% of the flow of the White Nile River, as much as 5.2 billion gal. of water a day, around the Sudd, a vast swampland in southern Sudan...