Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slight leak" was detected by the maintenance worker making the change, and before procedures were completed, a release of chloring began," Francis J. Toland, assistant director of athletics, said in Harvard's only official statement on the matter...
Buildings and Grounds workers tried feverishly to stanch the flow, but the ancient pipes and hard-to-find shutoffs thwarted their efforts till nearly 11 p.m. When they finally fixed the leak, the Yard drained quickly and subsequent inspections revealed only minor damage to building basements and underground library stacks. By early morning, only a layer of mud was left as proof of the nighttime flood...
...some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee had been so alarmed at the Libya plot that it had written Reagan to protest. (TIME had also learned about the alleged plot, but concluded that the report was untrue.) The White House last week flatly denied Newsweek's story. But then...
...their main motivation." After grilling Lamont-Havers, one committee member, Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.) emerged from the conference room to tell reporters that the ultimate victims in the Hoechst case may be American taxpayers who have indirectly supported fundamental research that will now benefit foreign investors--a "technology leak," as one of his aides later called...
...incision of about six to eight inches, the doctors made a careful inspection to see if the twisting bullet had damaged any major blood vessels or organs. There was special concern that it might have hit the pancreas, which produces digestive enzymes that can dissolve tissue and, if they leak out, cause severe inflammation. Fortunately that vital organ escaped damage. Then the doctors ran their gloved hands along the entire 20-ft. length of the small intestine and the 5 ft. of large intestine. Typically this inch-by-inch examination is repeated two or three times to make certain...