Word: vault
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizen complaints and warnings from the state, Hooker settled out of court in what a state official called one of the "ten most important environmental settlements of recent times." The company agreed to take all chemicals and contaminated soil on the site and contain in a gigantic clay vault larger than 13 football fields and to clean the groundwater through massive pumping and filtering...
...Hooker clean-up was "state-of-the-art," but soon after the vault was sealed more contaminated soil was found and studies discovered that the extensive purge-well system was recovering only half of the polluted groundwater. Hooker was unwilling to spend more on clean-up and the state has been unwilling to sue a second time. And even had the system worked perfectly, could it have permanently contained its load of poisons? Said one community activist, "To the best of my knowledge, there is not one single example of such a vault in the world today which...
...Charles Dvorak held the Michigan outdoor pole vault record in 1900. What was the height of his school standard...
...locate a star involves the checking of various maps against the vault of the sky, with all the related actions: putting on and taking off eyeglasses, turning the flashlight on and off, unfolding and folding the large chart, losing and finding again the reference points...
This is the "sanctum sanctorum," said John A. Wolter, flinging open the door to the vault, which was cool and quiet as a tomb. "And this," he continued, sliding out a drawer, "is absolutely priceless." The item at hand was a map, faded so much that to take it in entire one had to squint. Drawn in 1791, it was Pierre L'Enfant's original layout of Washington. And here and there on the document, bleached so faint by time that the eye could not make out the words, were criticisms scribbled by the era's most brilliant fussbudget, Thomas...