Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each of the hundreds of welders who have worked on the project, examine it and then accept or reject the rest of that welder's work on the basis of the sample. Given the difficulties of these and other tests, the utilities may find it easier simply to junk the plant...
...reservoir, which provides the gravity flow for Cambridge, is "susceptible to acid rain, and junk being thrown into it, and bird droppings," said Francis H. Duehay '55, Chairman of the Cambridge City Council's environment committee...
...possible parole for Daniel James White, 37, the former city supervisor who murdered Moscone and Milk. During White's controversial 1979 trial, his attorney pursued the so-called Twinkies defense, arguing that White committed his crimes in a "diminished mental capacity" caused in part by eating too much junk food. A lenient jury bought the line and produced a verdict of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder. Under California's determinant sentencing law, that judgment carried a maximum term of seven years and eight months. With time off for good behavior, that makes White eligible for parole from Soledad...
...MARKET for Harvard Ph.D. s in Sanskrit Studies or History of Art has never been particularly strong, but thing seem to be getting worse than ever for academics hoping to junk the scholarly life. For four years, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) had run an unusual six-week intensive introduction to the basics of business for some 150 GSAS students and alumni; the program, offering instruction in such topics as finance, marketing, and production, propelled a good number into high-flying jobs with Sony, Citibank, Mobil, Wang, and the like. Last week, however, GSAS officials, citing financial...
...turned and whipped the ball to a ball boy. It hit the hapless gull, which had been idly perched on the turf. A ball boy came out, shrouded the corpse in a towel and tenderly removed it. For Winfield, who spent the rest of the game ducking balls and junk thrown by jeering fans, it marked the ignominious end to an evening of uneven achievements: one single, one double, one seagull...