Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...access to the Achille Lauro to make sure all the Americans aboard were safe. Meanwhile, rumors flew that one or more U.S. citizens had been killed. Washington also wanted to know where the terrorists were. Administration officials feared that Egypt was, in the words of one, "trying to get rid of them" as quickly as possible...
Such techniques are, of course, expensive. But the increasing cost of getting rid of dangerous chemicals provides a powerful incentive for manufacturers who use them to find ways to recapture and recycle them. While Government pressure and supervision of toxic-waste sites are vital, the disposal problem will remain intractable unless industry does most of the job itself. By one estimate, 96% of all hazardous wastes never leave the property of the companies that produced them. A number of companies have made some headway in curbing a generation of the poisons. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., for example, cut its volume...
...industries face the growing problem of how to deal with toxic wastes, which now total an awesome 300 million tons generated each year, they have increasingly turned to new technologies. Science has yet to find foolproof ways of getting rid of all polysyllabic perils. But it has come up with a number of alternatives to simple dumping...
...Times Beach, Mo., J.M. Huber Corp. has used a mobile electric reactor that heats up to 4,000 degrees F to destroy the dioxin in several hundred pounds of soil. Also tested at Times Beach is the EPA's mobile incinerator. It got rid of 99.9% of the dioxin in 1,750 gal. of liquid waste and 40 tons of soil in six weeks. Another movable unit is Westinghouse Electric's plasma arc furnace, which is housed in a 46-ft. trailer. The furnace reaches temperatures of 20,000 degrees...
...faculty members, particularly Chairman Robert D. Putnam, have spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to rid the department of this sexual harassment legacy. Committees have been established, counselors have been designated, firm statements condemning such abuse of power have been issued. In fact, Putnam admits, some professors criticize him for spending too much time on the sexual harassment issue, which he inherited when he became chairman last fall...