Word: sulphurous
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...construction of graduate-student housing on Cowperthwaite Street raised ire from surrounding residents in a meeting Friday morning, when they said they fear that the use of high-sulphur fuel may provoke a health crisis in the neighborhood...
...often-combative meeting, neighbors pushed University officials to replace the high-sulphur diesel fuel, used to operate the excavation crane, with low-sulphur diesel fuel...
...sulphur fuel is used in University shuttles and the City’s public transit system...
...respect: they believe he is John Frum's prophet. The gray-bearded Wan says he was chosen by Frum himself as an infant. John Frum, "dressed all in white," he says, here too urged people to stick to kastom, but went to Green Point only after appearing at nearby Sulphur Bay, initially as a lion. He promised too that Americans, many of whom were stationed on the main island of Efate during World War II, would one day bring development to the area...
...been an spd stronghold, where no-nonsense blue-collar workers like Teusch rebuilt the city from the bombed-out ruins of World War II, turning it into Europe's biggest steel producer. But now Duisburg is a shadow of the boomtown it once was. A light smell of sulphur still fills the air, recalling times when steel mills lined the edge of the city. But today, many mills have shut down. Last year, the number of steelworkers in Germany plunged to 78,000 - nearly half of whom live in Duisburg - from 297,000 in 1960. Unemployment runs at 18%, well...