Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ammonia leak in the refrigeration system of the Haviland Candy factory forced the evacuation of homes in the area and the closing of several streets, limiting access to the Cambridgeside Galleria on Saturday afternoon...
Many people in business have valid stories of the burdens of regulations gone awry. But this year the Republican majority has filled the Capitol with stories of absurd excesses, many of them apocryphal. According to one bogus story, the Federal Government requires buckets to leak so children won't drown in them. Another says sand has been ruled a toxic substance. Nevertheless, myth and personal anecdote are powerful weapons...
...mislead the CIA. For example, one source arrested by the KGB was made to contact a person in the U.S. in an effort to convince the FBI that his life was normal and he was having no problems. In addition, Soviet officials, prodded by the KGB, would deftly leak information to CIA officers suggesting that agents had been lost because they had made mistakes...
Confidentiality and secrecy are part of whatmake the Ad Board feared by students, who have noidea what goes on behind the closed doors ofdisciplinary committee meetings. In many cases,this secrecy leads to confusion, since only selectdetails leak out, Certain cases, such as therecent first fight at the D.U. final club or acase involving The Harvard Crimson, are coveredextensively by the campus media but do not alwaysportray all sides of a story. Legendary casesresult--such as the S&M couple who performedconsensual acts in public rather than the privacyof their own room and were required to withdrawfor the year...
...whom had been close associates of J. Peter Grace, to a more manageable 12. And with Grace gone and the CEO job still without a permanent occupant, some insiders may have been worried that the shareholders might press to bring back Bolduc, a prospect that apparently led to the leak of the proxy statement...