Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plastic liner, another layer of clay and yet more plastic. A plumbing system will pump rainwater out of the area. Nearby, the company is spending $1.6 million to improve its large surface collection tanks, made of concrete lined with epoxy, that receive waste from steel-processing plants. New fiber-glass liners are being placed inside the cylinders. In the past, such wastes were merely poured into noxious surface lagoons. (In other ways, Waste Management is no ideal disposer. It agreed to pay $2.5 million last April to settle an EPA charge that it had illegally disposed of toxic chemicals...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz hymned the praises of peace inside the vast General Assembly chamber, sharpshooters crouched on nearby rooftops, police helicopters whirred overhead, and U.S. Coast Guard boats patrolled the East River, which courses past the U.N.'s great green-glass tower. Divers, meanwhile, plumbed the river depths looking for bombs. To protect the visiting potentates will reportedly require the vigilance of more than half of the 2,000 agents of the U.S. Secret Service, and up to 3,000 New York City policemen, as well as State Department security agents...
...Juarez were not to open for several hours, interns had started making their rounds in a complex of hospitals within the National Medical Center. It was a bit early for much activity in the wealthy northwestern and southern neighborhoods, where hacienda-style houses sit next to modernistic concrete- and-glass homes. But life begins early each day in the overcrowded shantytowns at the edge of the sprawling city, where unemployment stands at 12% and underemployment is estimated...
...that contact with the West, or at least with Britain, vitiated India's arts, and he proves the point all too insistently with a final roomful of tatty 19th century artifacts. The one exception is the Baroda carpet, a lavish if gaudy confection of pearls, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and glass beads sewn onto deerskin and silk. From its shimmering surface, the exotic images of the legendary India seem to glint anew...
Among the areas worst hit by the hurricane were Conant Hall, one of the chemistry laboratories on Kirkland St., where a falling tree shattered two large plate-glass windows, and the Yard, where a half-dozen massive oak trees toppled. (See story, page...