Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry's response was reluctant and myopic, chacterized by stalling techniques, disinformation, and a refusal to pay real attention to damage outside of Prince William Sound," Kelso told the five-member subcommittee of the House Interior Committee...
Exxon faces a Wednesday deadline to have the worst of the oil cleansed from several islands in Prince William Sound, and has promised to clean some 364 miles of coastline by Sept...
...tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in the sound on March 24 after filling its storage tanks with crude from the trans-Alaska pipeline. More than 10 million gallons of oil poured into the sound...
...complicated to figure out. They listen for reliable word of when the market's going to turn (this is what people really want from newsletters, says an editor, the chance to pat a neighbor on the back and say, "I got out, you poor slob"). They listen for the sound of butterfly wings flapping...
...month after the Exxon Valdez disgorged 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, the effort to combat the worst such spill in U.S. history assumed the tempo of a military operation. By last week Exxon alone had mobilized 460 vessels, 26 aircraft and the first 2,850 members of what is expected to be a 4,000-person cleanup brigade. Said a company executive: "We could invade a small country with what we have deployed here...