Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tank of chlorine sprung a leak at a Cambridge water filtering plant yesterday, releasing a pool of highly corrosive liquid into the surrounding area and forcing a smallscale evacuation of the area around Fresh Pond Reservoir...
...workers in the plant were sent to the emergency room at Mt. Auburn Hospital for minor respiratory problems resulting from the leak, officials at the scene said. But a team of 43 Cambridge firefighters managed to contain the leak shortly after noon...
House Republicans were leak targets too. A 1986 letter from 16 of them, including Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, asked Bank Board ex-chairman Edwin Gray for "internal memoranda" about the board's decisions on certain S&L matters that could have helped Keating. Gray refused the request and charged last week that the Congressmen had been "duped and used" by the indicted financier...
...Saudi officers, such peaceful incursions across the border by Iraqi troops seeking food and water are common. Some of them defect; others, fearing for the lives of their families, are allowed to return. While the Saudis debriefed their Iraqi guests, Schwarzkopf discovered one of their trucks had a transmission leak and a battery without water. "That shows the poor state of their maintenance," he said...
Thatcher's anti-German feelings seemed further confirmed by last week's leak of a memorandum written by her private secretary Charles Powell after a seminar she held with several well-known experts on Germany. They had to explain to the Prime Minister that the countries of Eastern Europe actually wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make...