Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adjacent to the men's locker room is the men'sbathroom, which also has large holes in itsceiling. The ceiling tile is flaking above theurinals, which officers complain leak, causingfloor tiling to buckle...
Gore's crew is likely to recommend consolidation of many agencies -- though the first such idea to leak, blending the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, got a cold reception from both. Budget reforms are a major focus: the National Performance Review will recommend that Congress draw up budgets for two years at a time, that it give federal managers more authority to shift money from one account to another, and that it allow agencies to keep at least half of any money they save out of a fiscal year's budget. At present, if an agency spends less than...
...efforts to clean up the Volga River; an effort to protect the pristine Plitvicka Lakes National Park on the border between Serbia and Croatia from the fighting that has ravaged the Balkans; the establishment of a Geneva-based industry council that would help prevent chemical catastrophes like the gas leak that killed 2,000 in Bhopal, India; and an initiative to focus attention on problems that involve the use and disposal of toxic products by the world's military establishments...
...hunting ban has done nothing to eliminate other human activities that also threaten the animals. Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...
...face it. Harvard has some sort of agenda. But there is nothing really wrong with that. It's unrealistic to pretend that the administration has no political beliefs. It is likewise unrealistic to believe that its opinions will never leak through to its policy. The debate on homosexuality is primarily one of morality. While most conservatives would like to believe that they have a monopoly on this precious commodity, the Administration believes that tolerance is a moral virtue. And it is the prerogative and the right of this private institution to teach whatever moral lesson it wants...