Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's department of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) last week started removing asbestos from a water cooling tower on top of the Science Center as part of an ongoing crusade against the cancer-causing substance...
...began removing insulation panels from the water tower last Tuesday, said Nancy Curtin, the asbestos coordinator for the department, which is responsible for removing or encapsulating asbestos at Harvard...
...tree with a hose. He wears the regulation fire-retardant green pants, yellow shirt and hard hat, and a dirty cloth is stretched across his mouth and nose. "My wife was crying when I told her I'd be going out," he says, leaning against the force of the water. "But I love it out here. It's just me against this fire." Bill Ream, a 40-year-old from Weaverville, Calif., puts it another way: "I sleep in the back of my pickup, I eat old food out of a bag, I breathe smoke, and I haven't washed...
...intelligence first spotted the missiles last March along the Iranian banks of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow strip of water through which all shipping must pass on its way into and out of the gulf. Though Iranian officials have frequently threatened to close the strait, such a scenario is considered unlikely, since much of Iran's own oil exports must pass through the waterway...
...soon snatched his diploma and left for Kenyon College, eventually wandering far from the gritty industrial town strung along the Ohio River above Wheeling, W. Va., but he never really escaped the place. He couldn't. A hypersensitive youth who just happened to be set down amid swirling olive water and factory steam, Wright had had his poetic subject matter handed to him on a dinner plate. He neither forgot nor forgave the misery that he knew...