Word: leake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race was originally scheduled to be 2000 meters long, but due to a sewer leak on Mission Bay, the course was shortened to 1500 meters. Western teams traditionally row 1000-meter races, however, so the extra 500 meters benefited, the oar women anyway...
...boss's campaign to give $14 million to the contras, only a week after said boss has called the contras "our brothers" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." But it's not the impolitic thing to say if one is using the time-honored leak method to away the course of the boss's policy...
Though much less severe, some symptoms were similar to those experienced by victims of last December's Union Carbide leak in Bhopal, India, which killed at least 1,400. The poison there was methyl isocyanate, which, like mesityl oxide, is used in the production of agricultural chemicals. After Bhopal, Union Carbide closed its Institute, W. Va., plant, where methyl isocyanate was manufactured. Since then it has been revealed that there were 62 minor leaks at Institute starting in January 1980. Local safety officials charge that Union Carbide took almost four hours to acknowledge responsibility for last week's leak...
...research complex, referred to benignly as a "campus" or "Acorn Park," the Levins Laboratory is located. Though security reasons could be cited, the withholding of such information could introduce an error of several hundred feet in the Advisory Committee's estimate of the range of toxic effects from a leak or explosion, and consequently, make the already highly uncertain assessment practically useless...
...SOMEWHAT MORE DISTURBING than the likelihood of a nerve gas leak is the bad faith ADL has fostered in its dealings with the community. From the very beginning of the project, ADL neglected to tell the appropriate city officials about its intentions to test nerve gas in the city until after the million dollar Levins Laboratory was completed. Moreover, company spokesmen have consistently been inconsistent in their explanations about how much of the substances are being tested and what the purpose of the testing really is. Finally, ADL even went so far as to inform the city that...