Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington wooed members of the Democratic site-selection committee with Bavarian souffles, designer tote bags with their names inscribed and a boat trip on the Potomac. Chicago courted them with an energetic mayor-elect and a bubbly champagne brunch. Detroit, with its high unemployment and strong unions, presented itself as an ideal backdrop for Democratic issues...
...explosion was over in a flash, but the horror of it all deepened through the week. Day and night, rescue workers picked through the rubble, desperately looking for survivors. Cranes gingerly hoisted slabs of broken concrete up and away from the site, while bulldozers scraped away debris. A searcher somewhere inside the wreckage kept yelling through a bullhorn: "If anybody can hear me, please call for help." No one did. By Saturday, members of the rescue teams were still uncovering corpses buried under the avalanche of what was once the U.S. embassy. At one point, the rescuers pulled the body...
Kaminskaya found that in addition the investigator had fabricated evidence. Visiting the scene of the crime, she discovered that the boys could not have attacked Marina where the investigator said they did. The site, near a pond, had been awash in mud on the day of the murder, but the boys had been seen clean and dry shortly after they had allegedly committed the crime...
Located some 50 miles east of Los Angeles, the 22-acre Stringfellow Acid Pits are among the worst repositories of toxic waste in the U.S. Before the site was finally shut down in 1972, it was filled with nearly 34 million gal. of hydrochloric, sulfuric and phosphoric acids, chloroform, trichloroethylene and other poisonous manufacturing byproducts. Although California and federal authorities have spent $7 million to contain the damage, the lethal chemicals are still working their way into the ground water, threatening area residents and farms...
...land again came into question, when Carpenter and Co. was selected from six semifinalists to develop the site. Community groups once again protested the plans, this time because the proposed project relied heavily on retail use, which they said would create the same traffic tie-ups the library would have...