Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William A. Lee, personal administrator for B&G, said yesterday new training will include men who do not ordinarily work in the tunnels but might be called in to work on or near the asbestos-insulated pipes...
...near-miss by sophomore Chris Papagianis early in the fourth period was the closest the Crimson came to a goal in regulation play...
EVERY TIME it rains, an industrial landfill near Niagara Falls turns red with leaking chemicals. One of those chemicals is called dioxin; three ounces of it, properly distributed, would destroy the entire population of New York City. There are two thousand pounds of dioxin in the landfill...
Finally, at an altitude of 8,200 ft., the track breaks through onto a rolling plateau of sagebrush, juniper and pine. It is here, on this remote plateau, southwest of Rifle, Colo., that Caterpillars of the Colony Development Operation have already cut 300 yds. into a mountain of shale. Near by, in another canyon, Union Oil engineers monitor a conveyor belt delivering a stream of shale into a giant funnel. Some 40 miles south, at Logan's Wash, Occidental Petroleum miners have cut two mine faces into the sides of a shale mountain. Farther northwest lies another tract...
These demons turn out to be not very amusing. Young Michael, it seems, was reared by a family that overstressed winning. He became so afraid of losing that he developed to near-genius level the ability to find excuses for not competing at all. So now Michael does not have to win the big race at the end. All he has to do is run it full out, and if you are actually wondering if he manages to do so, then you had better run right along to Running...