Word: spill
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There is little question that the oceans have an enormous ability to absorb pollutants and even regenerate once damaged waters. For example, some experts feared that the vast 1979 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico would wipe out the area's shrimp industry. That disaster did not occur, apparently because the ocean has a greater capacity to break down hydrocarbons than scientists thought. But there may be a limit to how much damage a sector of ocean can take. Under assault by heavy concentrations of sludge, for example, the self- cleansing system can be overwhelmed. Just like decaying algae...
Andrew Sneddon, a university lecturer on offshore engineering in Aberdeen, said, "we can only assume there was a leak of some sort. Basically, you are sitting on top of two highly flammable products--oil and gas. A leak or a spill is a potential hazard. It is extremely difficult to say what could have...
...important that the city have good labor relationships at its largest employer, Harvard," Councillor David E. Sullivan said in March. "If we have labor strife at Harvard, it's going to spill over into the city of Cambridge--and that's not good for anyone...
...roots go, is a presidential biographer's dream: tucked away in the mountains on the island of Lesbos, it is connected to the outside world by a dirt road that winds past valleys with olive trees and shepherds tending goats. Red-tiled roofs of the village houses spill down the mountainside. Everybody waves, smiles. Pelopi is as famous for its hospitality as for what the Greeks call sovaros, or seriousness. In American politics that may translate into dull and dogged, but on Lesbos, sovaros is high tribute indeed, and the people of Pelopi have it by the barrelful. For just...
...during the short program, then skated away from the pack with a seemingly flawless performance in the longer freestyle event. The Soviets, who have claimed every Olympic pairs gold medal since 1964, also placed second and fourth. The top U.S. pair, Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard, survived an awkward spill early in the long program to capture the bronze and win America's first medal at Calgary...