Word: seep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he tells stories about politics, chewing on his cigar, Mondale's voice drops to a conspiratorial tone. He has the timing of a delightful dinner partner. This personal side, relaxed and humorous and even charming, does not often seep through to the public. When he walks back in the plane to swap stories with reporters, he hides a glass of Chivas Regal handed to him by an aide, joking, "Oops, they better not see this...
...Michael K changes. He feels bound to the land, even as he anticipates the inevitable stigmata. "I am becoming a different kind of man, he thought . . . If I were cut, he thought, holding his wrists out, looking at his wrists, the blood would no longer gush from me but seep, and after a little seeping dry and heal. If I were to die here . . . I would be dried out by the wind in a day, I would be preserved whole, like someone in the desert drowned in sand...
...movie lore. His debut as a writerdirector, Body Heat, updated the Double Indemnity plot with equal measures of fire and ice. The Big Chill marks another sure step forward for Kasdan. This is a movie that can extend outside the confines of movie genres, with characters whose lives seep outside the screen frame, who persuade the viewer to care about their pasts and futures...
...only U.S. plant using arsenic-rich copper ore imported from the Philippines. The proposed standard requires the smelter to install the best available technology to lower its overall arsenic emissions to 189 tons per year from the 310 tons that annually belch from its 565-ft. smokestack and seep from other parts of the plant. Asarco is already spending $4.4 million to install hoods that should cut back emissions to precisely those levels. Despite these safeguards, Ernesta Barnes, EPA's Northwest regional administrator, maintains that "arsenic is toxic at any level" and Asarco's new hoods will "still...
...Western oil imports falling, Soviet sales to the West rose from 1.1 million bbl. per day in 1981 to a rate of almost 1.5 million by the end of 1982. Goldman believes that Soviet oil exports to Italy doubled. This year, the Soviets let news of their price cuts seep out. The first cut, from $31.50 to $29.35, came in January. Last week, after OPEC announced its new $29 bench mark, word spread that the Soviet Union had cut prices again...