Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lights started ahead of MIT and down on Dartmouth, but at the 500-meter mark, they came even with the Green. After 700 meters. Dartmouth sunk and Harvard remained in sole possession of the lead, a length ahead of MIT. The Engineers closed the gap briefly, but Harvard took a power ten and opened it back up, rowing at a cadence of 32 all the way to the finish for the last 500 meters...
Gaines calls the 200-meter world record his greatest accomplishment as a swimmer. "I set it a year ago and it still hasn't sunk in--I think about when it will be broken sometimes. It'll probably go this summer, or in the spring when the Russians have their big meet...
...Somerset County, Pa., southeast of Pittsburgh, Standard Oil of Indiana has already sunk three dozen natural gas wells. In the Crab Orchard Mountains of Cumberland County, Tenn., Ladd Petroleum has struck oil and gas at depths of up to 4,000 ft., and expects to keep searching for the next five years before the area's potential is firmly established. In Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, Atlantic Richfield and Gulf are planning to spend up to $26 million over the same period to drill on some 1.2 million leased acres...
...point in her career, propelling her toward the stage rather than the screen. After 58 movies in 39 years, her film career seems to be becalmed, if not begone. In the past ten years many of her pictures, from X Y & Zee to The Mirror Crack 'd, have sunk from sight with little more than a gurgle of wasted dollars...
...unlike the oil or gases kept in the ground under pressure at places like Mont Belvieu, solid nuclear wastes could not trickle through the salt. In fact, he and his colleagues already have some preliminary ideas about how the debris should be buried. Vertical shafts, he explains, would be sunk in solid salt to a depth of about 2,000 ft. Horizontal tunnels would fan out from the bottom of the shafts. The wastes, packaged in corrosion-resistant containers, would be buried beneath the tunnel floors. Then the entire mine would be refilled with salt and sealed...