Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harmiess leak of the chemical used to odorize natural gas caused the evacuation of many buildings at Harvard and across Massachusetts at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday...
...Yekaterinburg, formerly known as Sverdlovsk, the provincial city in the Urals where the Bolsheviks assassinated Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family in 1918. It is also the place where Boris Yeltsin rose to power as a party boss: he was there in 1979 when a leak from a biological-warfare plant released a cloud of deadly anthrax virus that killed 64 people...
...problems with the boiler are even worse. For almost a full day during the winter, we did not have hot water. Apparently, the hot water main broke while a small leak was being fixed...
...returned to 29G in the afternoon last Monday, I discovered a great deal of yellow CAUTION tape around one side of the door way, and a construction crew tending a large hole outside. When I entered the elevator, I saw a sign that read, "Important: Due to a leak in the main water supply, the water will be shut off until further notice." How quaint...
...will ever know for sure why the billion-dollar Mars Observer spacecraft permanently lost contact with NASA last August, just before it was to begin its surface-mapping mission. But an investigative panel has concluded that the problem was most likely a fuel leak and not, as first suspected, a faulty transistor. According to the theory, as the probe's fuel tanks were being pressurized for a final maneuver, the fuel ignited prematurely, blowing a hole in Observer and throwing it into an uncontrollable spin...