Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resort-town whatsit shops, where summer visitors unload old paperbacks, a good used thriller is rarely in stock. Biographies, gothics, sex novels abound. But whodunits tend to linger on in vacation cottages until, in a welter of unglued clues, they spill apart. This summer at least four volumes will be read to shreds by season...
...community has reason to be sensitive about offshore oil exploitation, it is Santa Barbara, Calif., scene of a disastrous oil spill in 1969. But last week the voters of Santa Barbara County, by a narrow 35,500 to 34,700, turned down a chance to keep oil development out of their area. In a referendum, they approved construction of a $30 million plant to process oil and natural gas from new offshore sources. An important factor in the vote was the threat by the plant's proponents that the project would be built anyway-in offshore waters beyond...
...agents opened the safe-deposit box in November 1973, they found 16 bills in the cache that had not been in circulation in 1971. Confronted with this evidence, Jacobsen said, he decided to spill the whole truth...
...Japan's leading environmentalist, goes further: if Chisso gets the loan, he says, a wrong precedent would be set. He fears that the government may be asked for low-interest loans by other polluters-Mitsubishi Oil Co., for example, which was responsible for a serious oil spill at the Mizushima industrial complex (TIME...
...important document and frustrate censorship at the same time. The diaries are indeed uncharitable: they depict Wilson making major policy decisions without informing the Cabinet, the Queen showing more interest in discussing her Corgi dogs than affairs of state, civil servants hiding important documents from Grossman. But they spill few state or industrial secrets; so prosecution under the Official Secrets Acts or on other grounds would be difficult. Besides, during last year's election campaign Wilson had vowed he would narrow the Official Secrets Acts and make government processes more open. The night before the first Grossman installment appeared...