Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...many waste handlers have merely tossed the refuse into leaky burial pits, or carted it off to municipal dumps to mix with household garbage, or paid farmers small fees to let them hide 55-gal. drums on unused land, often by dark of night. Some haulers have pumped liquid wastes into tank trucks and driven down rural roads with the pet cocks open, releasing the chemicals into ditches. Some of the companies that paid middlemen or haulers to get rid of the refuse asked no questions about-and did not want to know-where the chemicals went...
...hovels and open bamboo shelters. Young miners in cutoff shorts and sandals throng the dusty alleyways; grizzled oldtimers wearing floppy straw hats lead their pack mules through the maze. Everywhere, anxious men watch drying handfuls of earth for signs of pay dirt. The ground around them flows with a liquid waste, from the panning and sluicing, that is the color of oxblood. The methods may be crude and oldfashioned, but they are productive: Serre Pelada is turning out gold at the rate of a metric ton per month, three times as much as the next biggest mine in Brazil...
...attached to the radiator by tubing. Before Avrea's invention, hot radiators sometimes spilled frothy fluid onto the road through a pressure-relief valve, lowering efficiency and forcing drivers to check the coolant level. Now, that fluid flows into Avrea's container; when the engine cools, the liquid runs back through the tubing into the radiator...
Nelson, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, will teach Physics 126, "Introductory Physics," next spring. Recently his research has focused on the transition between the solid and liquid phases of matter...
...plants, owned by the South African Coal, Oil & Gas Corp. (SASOL), are part of an ambitious project that aims to make South Africa almost totally self-sufficient in gasoline before the turn of the century by turning coal into liquid fuel. While similar synthetic fuels helped run Hitler's armies during World War II, the procedure has not been widely used because, until recently, petroleum was much cheaper. The South Africans have developed the most advanced facilities in the world for making synthetic fuels. Under the Carter national energy program now being completed in Congress, the U.S. would build...