Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murky grayish color. The forest near it has long served as a dumping ground for old auto parts, battered furniture, cans and bottles. On March 31 a hiker hunting for mushrooms stumbled upon a human skull. During the next two days police investigators found the rest of that skeleton, along with the remains of three other women. The grisly discoveries brought to 20 the number of women from the Seattle area presumed to be victims of a mysterious demon dubbed the Green River Killer...
Most "overnight stars" have a few skeletons in their closets: low-budget movies made when they were struggling for attention, then exhumed by some fringe distributor trying to cash in on a brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia of the cocaine underworld, is a skeleton in a super-closet: the picture was made in 1982 between Winger's two big hits, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, and was perpetrated by James Bridges, the writer-director whose previous films include The China Syndrome...
Only three months ago, the immense construction site at Indiana's Marble Hill nuclear power station alongside the Ohio River bustled with 8,000 workers. Now the cranes and earth movers at the plant stand idle, and a shroud of snow covers the project's jagged skeleton. Last week Public Service Co. of Indiana, Marble Hill's principal builder, announced that it would abandon the half-finished plant altogether. Marble Hill has already eaten up some $2.5 billion, making it the most expensive nuclear power project ever to be dropped. The decision brings the total number...
Michael has plenty of company. Strung out over a 240-mile stretch of the upper Mississippi, embedded in the ice like pieces of an unfinished mosaic, are 49 towboats pushing more than 600 barges with cargoes worth an estimated $150 million. Each boat carries a skeleton crew that is responsible for upkeep and for starting the engines once a day to prevent ice buildups on the propeller and the hull. "We're just baby sitting a boat," says Leo Hallinan, 40, a deckhand aboard the Ann Blessey. "If the TV ever went out, they'd have to carry...
...closings announced last week involved operating plants. Some of the facilities had not been functioning for several years and had no employees or only skeleton crews. Said Don Stazak, president of Steelworkers Local 65 in Chicago, of the doomed South Works: "In the '50s, '60s and early '70s, this place was a city within a city. There was traffic in and around the plant 24 hours a day. Workers and jobs were everywhere. Today you can walk down the inside of the plant for more than a mile and see nothing. It's a ghost town...