Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealt with effectively. A muscular and unprecedented step in the right direction may have just been taken in California. Over a six-year period, Los Angeles County schools lost an estimated $100 million as a result of school muggings, lawsuits, theft and vandalism while city and school officials ineffectually wrung their hands over jurisdictional problems. Last month the attorney general for the state of California sued, among others, the mayor of Los Angeles, the entire city council, the chief of police and the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Unified School District, demanding that authorities put together some coordinated...
While officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Interex Corporation--a New England-based company on contract to remove Harvard's radioactive sludge--wrung their hands in horror, University officials continued to seek alternative disposal methods...