Word: solidities
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...went on, it became clear that more had gone wrong than was originally disclosed. Some 1.2 tons of radioactive water used to cool the reactors had spilled, the company suspects, from a spent-fuel pool and into the nearby ocean. Tokyo Electric also announced that 100 drums containing radioactive solid waste were toppled, and some radioactive material was detected in one of the main exhaust pipes that emit the plant's treated emissions into the open air. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe criticized the company for failing to respond quickly enough in the quake's aftermath. Tokyo Electric President Tsunehisa Katsumata...
Previously published papers had pointed to a possible relationship between urate levels and incidence of Parkinson’s disease, but there had not been solid data on it until this paper, Weisskopf said...
...also left some things behind: I left behind that toilet paper, thanks to some solid indoor plumbing. I left behind a handful of frightening porcelain gifts, artfully decorating my hotel room with taunting monkeys and glassy-eyed dolphins. I left behind the delusion that everything and everyone around me is as pleasant as it might appear, or as I want it to appear...
...introduced a new securities law a year ago, and it's also why, bankers in China say, they wanted to give retail investors a shot at investing in well known companies. "For the last year," says a western banker in Hong Kong, "the word has definitely gone out that solid, state-run companies already trading in Hong Kong should consider IPOs on the mainland." If, in the process, that diverted some savings that was otherwise serving to drive up the price apartments in Shanghai - and it definitely did - that was fine...
...Most of all, we miss the living presence of Dieter Dengler, who died five years ago. When we met him in Little Dieter, he was driving in a solid car, living in a stolid middle class house, having spent the rest of his life as a test pilot (he managed to survive four more plane crashes), apparently unmarked by his youthful adventures. That came to be the most heroic thing about him - his ability to embrace normalcy, to talk about the past almost as if it were a story that happened to someone else. There was a tranquility about...