Word: storming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) recently discovered that four Harvard Square restaurants were dumping food waste, oil and grease into a storm drain that runs into the Charles River, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said yesterday...
...which regularly monitors pollution in the city's storm drains, discovered an unusually high fecal coliform count in a drain near the intersection of JFK and Eliot Streets several weeks ago, according to Ralph Dunphy, Cambridge's commissioner of Public Works...
...dissent were enough, apparently, to make up executives' minds: They would complete a merger and quickly cut the agribusiness free from the rest of the company, letting it fend for itself. That amputation, execs hope, will leave Monsanto and Pharmacia & Upjohn's pharmaceuticals division to take the market by storm - unhindered by bad publicity...
...reputation for his ability to exploit his character's internal conflicts in any time or place, be it Jane Austen's England in his 1995 release Sense and Sensibility, or the alienated '70s suburbia of 1997's The Ice Storm. Yet his latest project, Ride With the Devil, based on Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, reflects the damage too much praise can have on a director. All that distinguishes Ride with the Devil as anything other than a glorified action flick is a splattering of historical nuances and the occasional flirtation with character complexity...
...could compare her to Austin Powers' Frau Fraubissina, although you might get a jackboot to the stomach. The creator of Stereolab's cold-hearted sound storm appeared in hardcore military-chic: high collar, olive-drab frock, tight mug. But somehow, when she and Hansen stepped up to their microphones, it was all okay: Sadier's harshness and Hansen's softness mixed together as well as Stereolab's other songwriter (and founder) Ti Gane can mix Muzak and German post-punk, the listless vocals carried along like a beauty queen in a homecoming parade of sound clips, acid jazz and dippy...