Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...location where the Malafemmina, which means evil woman in Italian, was sunk is a few hundred yards from a commercial lobster company where Paradiso once worked. Authorities said he often moored the boat at the pier...
Once over its resting place, the barge under the plant was sunk in a dozen feet of water, forming a man-made foundation for the plant. When the STP finally starts working in mid-1984, it will help Arco, Sohio and nine other oil companies get more oil out of their North Slope wells. Water will be drawn into the plant at a rate of as much as 2.2 million bbl. a day, deoxygenated and heated from the Beaufort Sea's 28° to 40°. Then it will be pumped to another plant ten miles away, there...
...daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a towline to the tanker's bow. A powerful tugboat then began to tow the wreckage 100 miles out to sea, where it will be sunk in some 6,000 feet of water...
...Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Alumna and two-time Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep, 34, gave the commencement address and credited her alma mater with instilling in her "a taste for excellence." But, she added in a cautionary note, "if you can live with the devil, Vassar has not sunk its teeth into you." He would have to catch up first. The next day Streep was off to New Haven to pick up an honorary degree in fine arts from Yale, where she had done graduate work at the drama school...
...complaints about the management of the U.S. economy focused on the large U.S. budget deficits that are keeping real interest rates high. West Germany's Steger summed up the European case by warning, "As long as you stick to this policy of high deficits, an overvalued dollar, capital sunk in for the health of the New York stock market but not industry, then there will be pressure for protectionism." U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, also took the lead in voicing concern over protectionism, referring specifically to rising U.S. public pressures for import restrictions. "Protectionism...