Word: spew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than a decade ago, it became clear that the booming West and Southwest would soon need far more electric power. But people in Phoenix or Los Angeles did not want to live next door to generating plants that spew soot and noxious gases, discharge hot water and spawn unsightly transmission lines. As a result, the area's electric utilities decided to build new plants as far away from people as possible-in the desert shared by Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. Eventually, a consortium of 23 public and private organizations in seven states were involved in planning...
Screaming boys line the spitting range, older folks crowd up in folding aluminum chairs, and the bleachers sag under the weight of several hundred cheek-to-jowl spectators as Don Snyder begins his assault on the distance crown. The 22 entrants spew down the range. There are three rounds, and Snyder on his first try comes to within a foot of George Craft's 13-year-old record. On the second round he narrows the difference to less than two inches. Then Snyder arches his last shot 25 ft. 10 in. for a new world's record...
...standards to control auto emissions in 1973 and 1975 models. One proposal for meeting these standards: remove lead additives from gasoline. As a result, automakers will have to reduce engine horsepower, and gasoline will cost more (see BUSINESS). But the rules will reduce the toxic substances that autos now spew into the U.S. air each year-notably 350 million pounds of lead, 12 million tons of hydrocarbons and 66 milion tons of carbon monoxide...
...truth is that Americans have done far too little to tame the polluting effects of technology. Even the far reaches of Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...
...supply, and death may result. In Chicago and Philadelphia, says John Middleton, a top federal air-control official, the CO danger point "is exceeded throughout one-third to one-half of the day, and in Los Angeles more than 40% of the time." Each day in Los Angeles, cars spew out 20 million pounds of CO-enough to decrease the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity in some people...