Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, and while he picks he may be sprayed from above with pesticides. If he needs to urinate, he must find a place at the edge of the field, for normally there are no sanitary facilities provided. His two-room house might have electricity, but it probably has no sink, toilet, bath or shower. He typically receives $1.43 an hour without overtime, sick pay, unemployment benefits, or a medical plan, although he is far more susceptible than most other workers to accidents, disease, and unemployment. It is difficult for him to obtain social security, but that wouldn't help much...
...once in a while, and there's bingo on Thursday. I went to Lenadoon (Catholic area near Andersonstown) the other day to see a friend but I got caught in a gun battle. Life just gets very monotonous; there's nothing to do. In fact, I just cleaned the sink for the sixth time today, I got so fidgety (it was 2 p.m. at the time). What we have here is an existence, nothing else. There's really nothing to hold people here and I often think of going to New Zealand or Canada or Australia...
When the waterless John is flushed, this specially refined mineral oil and wastes go into a separator tank. There, urine and solids sink to the bottom, then are sent to a holding tank, where they are eventually burned in an almost pollution-free, 1200° F. incinerator that leaves a residue of sterile ash. The oil itself is filtered, chlorinated and returned odorless to the toilet tank to be used again. And again. Over a year, just 5% of the mineral oil is lost in the process...
...Sheet Sink Into A Financial Hole...
...several months, and high-capacity production might not be achieved until Easter or later. As a result Polaroid's always-bouncy stock has been particularly erratic. In June, when an early marketing of the SX-70 was still expected, it rose as high as 140, only to sink to 107¼ in September, when the delay was announced. Last week it closed...