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...dirty business of industrial garbage, Waste Management, Inc., of Oak Brook, Ill., has always presented a squeaky-clean face to the public. When outsiders visited a cleanup site in Seymour, Ind., for instance, they saw work crews in protective clothing taking samples from drums of hazardous refuse for white-coated chemists to analyze in nearby laboratories. Other neatly uniformed workers transported the waste to two of the company's 15 toxic-chemical disposal sites, where it was buried in a landfill under tons of clay or injected into a deep underground well. Such attention to niceties helped Waste Management...
...handled carelessly or even illegally. The attorney general of Illinois filed a $1.1 million lawsuit charging that 400,000 gal. of waste containing a potent carcinogen associated with dye manufacturing had been illegally dumped in a Calumet City landfill. And the company temporarily suspended disposal operations at an Ohio site after belatedly learning that PCB-contaminated oil had been improperly stored there. Waste Management's stock was hit by a huge sell-off at the beginning of the week that drove its price per share down some 18 points in two days, a loss of $800 million...
Raymond Siever, professor of Geological Sciences, said a nuclear waste disposal site "should be an area with granite deposits, without volcanoe and earthquake activity, and with a low population...
Blair agreed, explaining that the team just had to get the early part of the game out of its system. "We were due for a let-down," he said. "We'll be ready. We want to get to Grand Forks," N.D. site of this year's final four tourney...
...first round consists of a two-game total-goal series at each site. Each later round is single-elimination...