Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only remaining barrier to University plans for affiliate housing on the site--now the largest undeveloped plot of land in Harvard Square--is clean-up of a "low level" of oil found on the property last summer, said Marilyn L. O'Connell, assistant director for urban planning and community affairs...
...Opening Day, the Boys of Summer can do no wrong. They catch every fly, stab every grounder and hit only line drives. They can end airline strikes, clean up oil spills and bring world peace...
...threat to local marine life quickly became apparent. As oil gushed out at the rate of 20,000 gal. an hour, emergency teams found ducks coated with crude and sea lions with flippers drenched in oil clinging to a buoy near the wreck. By the time the leak had slowed to a dribble a day later, an estimated 270,000 bbl. of oil had escaped, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. It appeared to be the largest spill, if not the worst in terms of ecological damage, in U.S. history...
Aside from the damage to marine life, the spill seemed certain to have an impact in another area. Environmentalists will use the accident as ammunition in their fight against further oil development in Alaska, particularly U.S. plans to permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
...artists working the phones are robbing consumers of $1 billion or more every year. So far, law-enforcement officials can do little to stop them. -- As the U.S. gulps more oil and discovers less, imports are taking off. -- Small farmers love him, but pesticide makers think he's poison. Don't mess around with Jim Hightower...