Word: tars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...female voice, with her resounding alto in the famous song, "Sweet Little Buttercup." Other successful numbers include Sir Joseph's description of his rise to the first admiralty of the navy--accompanied by his sister, cousins, and his aunts--and the Captain and Deadeye dust, "Merry Maid and the Tar," which goes into encore verses...
...politics of the 2½-year-old Iran-Iraq war quickly got in the way. At week's end there was no agreement on how to cap the gushers, much less on how to clean up the resulting mess. Even as the ministers spoke, patches of tar started to wash up on Bahrain's sandy beaches...
Part of Denver's office glut reflects the collapse of the synfuels industry, which was to have produced high-cost fuels from shale, tar sands and other sources. Dozens of projects have been shelved in the face of falling energy prices. One of the largest was Exxon's multibillion-dollar Colony Shale Oil venture near Parachute, Colo., which was closed a year ago at a cost of 2,100 jobs. Recalls Allen Koeneke, president of the First National Bank in Rifle, Colo. (pop. 3,215), some 17 miles away: "When the news hit, we would have...
...indeed become an option. The Administration had counted on its showy, if belated, one-two punch-buying out dioxin-tainted Times Beach, Mo., and bolstering Burford with five seasoned deputies-to cool the controversy that has paralyzed the agency. But it soon became apparent that the EPA tar baby was not so easily unstuck...
...temple's structural integrity, continually threatened by Java's heavy rains. Under the leaning balustrades went reinforced concrete slabs. To prevent water from undermining the hill upon which Borobudur sits, the engineers installed hidden drain pipes to replace the gargoyle spouts provided by the ancients. Finally, gravel, tar, epoxy and lead were layered under the stones to protect them and the foundation from seepage. Says Indonesian Archaeologist Soekmono, 60, known among his countrymen as the Guardian of Borobudur: "The structure is engineered to last another 1,000 years...