Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town with a name like Tuna doing so far from home? Settling in for a six week run at the Charles Playhouse, the last leg of its national tour. Don't let the overalls and twangy y'all's fool you. For not having quite "made it on the map" yet, Greater Tuna, the fictitious name of Texas' third smallest town, comes to Boston with an impressive record of big-time successes, including six sold out weeks at the Kennedy Center, a year and a half in New York, and most recently, its debut at the Edinburgh International Festival...
...could easily reach $100 billion, or more than $1,000 per U.S. household. Eventually, predicts the General Acccounting Office, which also does studies for Congress, more than 378,000 waste sites may require corrective action. So far the EPA has put only 850 dumps on its priority list (see map). In its five-year effort, it managed to clean up only six sites and, critics protest, not very thoroughly at that...
...recitation. "The people who owned the house next door were stricken by cancer," she says, "and the people next door to them, and next door to them. We had a six-year-old pass away from cancer in the neighborhood, and a 20-year-old." Ross started mapping the victims' homes. After Leah Abbott learned of the poison, she became an amateur epidemiologist too, putting dots on a map of Holbrook, drawing up her own geography of death...
...interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat as a map and profoundly ugly...
...characteristically muted concerning the "show me" Series that is now distinctly possible. "It's harvest time," pronounced Dan Quisenberry, an ironic relief pitcher for Kansas City, by way of introducing last week's four- day visit from the California Angels, one of several perfect appointments fizzing all over the map...