Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sites chosen by the EPA for quick action should probably not have been on the top-priority list in the first place. In Greenville, Miss., Walcott Chemical Co. had stored 226 drums of such chemicals as tetrasodium pyrophosphate and formic acid in a warehouse that the state of Mississippi had seized for failure to pay taxes. The state considered the chemicals a fire hazard (rather than a contamination threat) and asked EPA to put the site near the top of its list. The agency merely had the drums hauled off to an approved landfill in Emelle, Ala. Problem solved. Similarly...
Using mostly quick look-in passes to his receivers, DeGirolamo directed his team to the Harvard eight-yard line...
They thought they had finally figured out the quick and easy answer to long nights spent flirting at the Picadilly Filly. But the only thing two second-year Business School students who started the Wellesley-HBS Date Match have learned is how not to run a dating service...
...PROBLEM, therefore, with MacKinnon's bill lies in a sense precisely in its explicitness, "the quick-fix appeal" of coding into law a short-term memory of more deeply rooted, that is, historical inequalities. "Should we burn it?," Suleiman warns, is a trap. Scrubbing away at unpleasant surfaces is a domestic chore. On one hand, one wants to sling mud for mud; on the other, one is then reduced to a similar level of indecency, instead of providing new examples of civil education...
...Interior Department group that regulates fish hatcheries. Soon the Star Warriors will move to a new building complex in suburban Virginia near the Pentagon. So far, SDIO administers some 1,000 contracts worth $1.1 billion for studies aimed at developing such products as lethal laser beams and lightning-quick battle computers...