Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delay gave everybody time to think. Arcata still needed an alternative disposal system that would "enhance" Humbolt Bay. Its sludge-skimming plant piped the city's wastewater into an oxidation pond (where most microbes are rendered harmless by sunlight), but the runoff no longer met legal standards. Locals knew vaguely that wastewater had some environmental pluses. Humboldt Bay oysters fed on its nutrients, and Professor Allen, a likable tinkerer whom Klippity Klopp calls Crazy George, raised salmon fingerlings in a mix of sea and wastewater. Other ideas emerged. HSU biologist Stan Harris was for a bird sanctuary. Gearheart came...
...refused to disappear. Banished to a deputy-ministry position in the construction industry, he is now attempting the unheard-of in Soviet life: a political comeback. Widely popular on the streets of Moscow, Yeltsin has got himself chosen as one of two candidates in the March 26 nationwide runoff for the brand-new Congress of People's Deputies. Today he campaigns daily around the city, exciting cheering crowds and recruiting campaign workers at every stop. He interrupted the frenzy of his quest and granted an interview in his Moscow office with TIME Washington correspondent David Aikman...
...stunning upset ended decades of Labor Party dominance in numerous key regions. With more Labor strongholds expected to fall in runoff elections scheduled for next week, Labor leader Shimon Peres grudgingly agreed to an investigation into the humiliating defeat...
During the runoff campaign against the second-place finisher, Republican home builder John Treen, Atwater sent messages from President Bush and Ronald Reagan urging Duke's defeat. This effort not only failed but apparently backfired. "We resent outsiders coming in trying to influence us," explained Guy Hinton, a third-generation resident of Metairie. Duke, a highly charged campaigner, defeated the stolid Treen by a mere 227 votes...
...talk sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats last night, State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) said that one of the primary health hazards is the high level of sodium in city water, caused by the runoff of salt-filled drainage from neighboring highways. City water currently contains 43 milligrams of sodium per liter, more than double the state-set limit...