Word: spill
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Protests and Payoffs. With punchy headlines and a tabloid format, the paper unflaggingly alerts its 10,000 readers to each week's environmental toll -an oil spill off Casco Bay, a fish kill at Mystery Lake, a historic barn razed at the University of Maine. Much vitriol is aimed at the paper industry, a major source of water pollution in the state. The Times recently flayed a new wave of fly-by-night operators who reopen abandoned paper mills for "short-term profit and long-term pollution...
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...final lap, the enormity of its success was overshadowed by fear of the consequences. In Canada's Parliament, legislators brought pressure on the government to declare the Northwest Passage Canadian territorial waters. Conservationists, too, were apprehensive. They warned that, because of the low annual temperatures, an oil spill in the passage would take decades, perhaps centuries, to dissipate. As for the oilmen at Humble, they were not willing to commit themselves beyond the Manhattan's return trip and another voyage next spring...
...rupture of the Torrey Canyon off the English coast, both of which devastated marine life. While the Tampico carried partially refined and relatively volatile diesel oil, the oil seeping up into Santa Barbara Channel was unrefined crude, which is considerably less lethal. More over, the Santa Barbara oil spill was spread over a vast expanse of sea and did not wash up onto the beaches immediately. Much of it lingered on the waves before wind and tide carried it ashore. In the interim, it apparently lost much of its potency. In the case of the Torrey Canyon, the real killers...
...economic front, limited innovation, such as the introduction of a form of the profit motive and expansion of managerial authority, is being attempted to improve output and efficiency. But Soviet-style Communists resist any thoroughgoing reform for fear that economic liberalization might spill over into social and political areas. Soviet Communism remains in command throughout most of Eastern Europe, constitutes the major influence on the French party, and controls a number of minor "pocket parties" such as the one in the U.S. and nearly all of the small Middle Eastern and Latin American parties...