Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best this kind of arrangement can function much like the U.N. coalition against Iraq did, with individual nations uniting to cut off the aggressor and forcing the return of captured land. Unlike the gulf coalition, however, real collective security will work even when there is no oil in sight--it works to cut off aggression early, before it can grow into a wider conflict...
...earned a more dubious distinction last month when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the site to its list of the nation's most dangerously polluted places. Among the hazards scattered across 12,264 acres: unlined landfills, pesticide-disposal pits, chromic acid- disposal areas, heavy-metal contamination and waste-oil leakage...
...armed forces, whose installations cover 25.6 million acres of America, have for decades allowed the leakage of oil and other fuels, drained toxic chemicals into waterways, dumped lethal sludge at unlined landfills and littered the country with unexploded shells and bombs. Military bases often sit astride local water sources, and some neighboring towns have detected higher incidences of tumors, cancer and birth defects. "Each of the military services is guilty," says Seth Shulman, author of The Threat at Home: Confronting the Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Military. "From coast to coast, there's an unbroken seam of toxic time bombs...
...Volkswagen Beetle. Chevrolet's ill-fated Corvair, which Ralph Nader judged to be "unsafe at any speed," made few inroads against imports. Yet GM was lulled into complacency by the success of its Pontiac GTO and other trend-setting muscle cars. When buyers flocked to small cars during oil crises in the 1970s, GM's failure to produce a winning model was ominous. "They had become so arrogant and efficient at defining trends that when a fundamental shift took place, they failed to adapt," says Shaiken. "They couldn't do anything radically different from what they had done before...
...Cogeneration Project will replace an oil-burning power plant with a more efficient source of energy powered by gas. The plant will cut MIT's air pollutant emissions nearly in half, according to Robert P. Suduiko, assistant to the president for government and community relations...