Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the University built the bridge and donated it to the city, Cambridge's Public Works Department had to "spend months" fixing a leak in the underpass, Vellucci said...
LAST WEEK's leak of toxic gas in Somerville after a railroad crash did more than irritate eyes--it set to rest the misguided notion that it is somehow possible to evacuate an urban area quickly in an unanticipated emergency...
...flow from the damaged car slowed shortly after 1 p.m., after the level of liquid in the tank fell below the gash. Workers also attempted to plug the leak with insulation material...
Such stories are not unusual on many U.S. campuses today. Visiting parents, barely used to finding their children knee-deep in noise and petty vandalism, are now, like universities themselves, encountering organic dilapidation in academe. For want of maintenance, roofs leak, ceilings crumble, fuses blow, pipes go bump in the night and expire. According to the National Association of College and University Business Officers, it would take roughly $30 billion just to catch up with accumulated neglect of campus buildings...
...nature of the FBI operation made early publication inevitable. (Rosenthal even deplores the name Abscam, which is short for Arab scam: "I wouldn't like it if the FBI had a Jewscam.") But there's still something disquieting about the way the press protects those whose leaks jeopardize due process of law or disclose security information. The Times, in listing the motives of leakers, says that some fear that superiors may override their findings, some long for personal credit, others with a grudge may want to punish a politician "with publicity even if an indictment is not warranted...