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...list. The agency merely had the drums hauled off to an approved landfill in Emelle, Ala. Problem solved. Similarly, about 700 drums of chemicals had been stored in a Cleveland warehouse used by Chemical Minerals Recovery Co. Another 700 were piled outside the building. None had sprung significant leaks. But EPA gave the site priority and had the drums carried to an EPA-licensed landfill in Geneva, Ohio. Another site cleared...
...outpouring of money would not have come about had it not been for Hudson's illness. Nor, without the subsequent publicity, is it likely that both houses of Congress would have moved last week toward vastly increasing the appropriations for AIDS research. From his misfortune good fortune may have sprung. His friend and Giant co-star Elizabeth Taylor wrote perhaps the most eloquent epitaph: "Please God, he has not died in vain...
Makela's lead pass sprung Dalgarno for a breakaway score, the first National Hockey League score for the Islanders' first-round draft pick...
...invitation to pleasure is being taken up with accelerating zest. Beauty parlors have mushroomed. Sedate discos and bowling alleys have sprung up. Citizens are snapping up $100 cameras and going on picture-taking sprees. In a few cities, six out of seven families own a television set, on which they can watch commercials offering a wide range of domestic and foreign consumer goods. There are aerobics classes and body-building sessions; one of the beauty items for sale in the capital is a fengruqi, a machine purported to enlarge the breast...
That much became clear even as the process began of carrying out the "arrangement" that got the 39 Americans sprung from Beirut. Only hours after the hostages had arrived safely in West Germany, the Israeli Cabinet on Monday voted to begin another release of prisoners taken out of Lebanon by withdrawing occupation forces. Two days later, some 300 Lebanese dressed incongruously in track suits sprinted from cell blocks in the prison of Atlit to a caravan of eleven buses that hauled them across the border to Ras al Bayada, the northernmost checkpoint of the remaining Israeli "security" (i.e., occupation) zone...