Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power plant opponents explained their legal initiatives to stop the project to students and handed out copies of their "people's injunction," which states that the Harvard power plant "will pollute our air, ruin our health, and we will pay for it in taxes and hospital costs...
...borne in mind, and he must be left with ample space in which to maneuver with dignity. Driven into a corner, the Afrikaner will take up arms and will leave a trail of destruction all along the way. What is more, he will leave this country in chaos and ruin...
...other manufacturing process is quite like it. Only a single speck of dust can ruin a chip, so work must be done in "clean rooms," where the air is constantly filtered and workers are swathed in surgical-type garb...
Hollywood summoned the actor early on. L.B. Mayer, the head of MGM. supposedly broke down in tears when Clift said: "Your scripts are bad, Mr. Mayer, and I don't want to be typecast -that'd ruin me." Finally, when he did go West for Red River, it was on his own, precedent-setting terms, and he did not have to sign the standard seven-year contract that had hobbled so many earlier stars. His best parts came in the early '50s, in A Place in the Sun with his friend Elizabeth Taylor, and in From Here...
...they've been too inconsistent and their schedule is too difficult. Northeastern has a long heritage of non-playoff hockey teams, so why ruin it this season...