Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said sewage treatment plants have made great improvements in the water quality, but high bacteria counts caused by storm water runoff and general urban pollutants will probably keep the water below federal swimming standards. The MDC has concentrated its cleanup efforts against the major cause of pollution--sewage overflow from Boston's antiquated sewer system, he added...
...both father and son were killed. (Twentythree percent of Miami's murders last year were committed with machine guns, a favorite weapon of drug dealers.) So many bodies now fill the Miami morgue that Dade County Medical Examiner Joe Davis has rented a refrigerated hamburger van to house the overflow. "If you stay here, you arm yourself to the teeth, put bars on the windows and stay at home at all times," says Arthur Patten, a Miami insurance executive. "I've been through two wars and no combat zone is as dangerous as Dade County...
Thus does the amazing saga of the Harvard Football Road Show continue. An overflow Homecoming Day crowd of 16,000--close to the largest in Cary Field history--watched the gridders click for their fourth win in four outings away from Cambridge, compared with an 0-3-1 ledger at home...
...horror and irony of the French Revolution. While The Terror creates a murderous chaos in the streets, Gance turns suddenly to an enclosed office: the nerve center of the Committee of Public Safety. A high wall is divided into four sections: Accused, Acquitted, Guilty, Innocent. Accused and Guilty overflow with dossiers; Acquitted and Innocent stand nearly empty. An officer enters, announcing to the pie-eyed overseer, "I must have three hundred today. Draw up the lists." A little man on a swing rides up and down along the wall, pulling files indiscriminately. He piles them before two scriviners, who begin...
...last month denounced Marielito murderers on a local TV show: "These guys are not even human. They're animals. Not even animals. That's an insult to the animal kingdom." The murder boom has filled existing morgue space; Davis rented a refrigerated hamburger van to accommodate the overflow...