Word: spill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spill in a park less than a quarter mile from the Harvard athletic fields caused little environmental damage, a state official said yesterday...
When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz foundered in 1978, spewing 68 million gal. of crude oil over the beaches of Brittany, it created the worst petroleum spill ever to hit land. It also launched one of the world's stickiest legal battles. The French government and a host of other plaintiffs claimed $1.6 billion in damages...
...lawsuits are beginning to fly. Six were filed last week charging Ashland with negligence that caused major economic losses and suffering to local industry and citizens. Considering the number of people and companies affected, Ashland and riverside communities are sure to % be sorting out the blame for the Floreffe spill long after the effects of the oil have disappeared...
...dramatic oil spill in Pennsylvania' s Monongahela River cuts off drinking water supplies and threatens communities along the Ohio...
Consider, as Green must, the realities of the other nine months. Dropout rates approach 90% in some ghetto schools and -- depending on who is counting -- 30% to 55% citywide. A surfeit of aging buildings crumble in disrepair. Desks occasionally spill out of overcrowded classrooms into hallways prowled by student hoodlums who "have been bringing weapons to school for years," says one principal. An overpowerful custodian's union, whose president was killed last year in what police described as a gangland-style rubout, dictates the hours schools will be open. Tenured high school principals cannot be fired without interminable hearings. Under...