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I think it will also draw attention to the dumping-ground nature of the Gulf (the Times had a good story yesterday on this) and the off-the-books environmental costs of the extraction industries.

Worst environmental disaster in U.S. history? 2010

I'll leave you in the able hands of Jeremy Eichler for the details (of which some remain state secrets — which version of Simon Boccanegra is that going to be, maestro?), but it's interesting to see the inevitable Mozart crammed into the sort of three-concert marathon dumping-ground normally reserved for new music.

Archive 2008-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

I'll leave you in the able hands of Jeremy Eichler for the details (of which some remain state secrets — which version of Simon Boccanegra is that going to be, maestro?), but it's interesting to see the inevitable Mozart crammed into the sort of three-concert marathon dumping-ground normally reserved for new music.

In this corner... Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Not only did the tiny state lack sufficient space for discarding its waste, but it had become a dumping-ground for garbage from other states.

The Hidden State of Culture 2009

Please — to all the various elected officials on this site — don't think of this as a dumping-ground for all your staff-written editorials and speeches.

Richard Bradley: No ghostwriters please 2008

Now, a new discussion talking about the same thing has a brutally honest, by-the-numbers analysis by Charles Stross, who summarizes: Until the book publishers figure out how to package collections of novellas and pay the authors pro-rata sums competitive with what they'd get for a novel, novellas are going to remain the dumping-ground for failed short novel ideas and special exhibition projects.

November 2005 2005

Now, a new discussion talking about the same thing has a brutally honest, by-the-numbers analysis by Charles Stross, who summarizes: Until the book publishers figure out how to package collections of novellas and pay the authors pro-rata sums competitive with what they'd get for a novel, novellas are going to remain the dumping-ground for failed short novel ideas and special exhibition projects.

Wither the Novella? 2005

Because using your journal as a dumping-ground may seem like a good idea, but all you're really doing is leaving a big ol 'toxic waste dump in plain sight.

More Issues Than A Magazine Rack 2005

Instead, Lakoff uses "freedom" as a dumping-ground term for any positive value he wants to endorse and attach to progressive politics.

Getting cognitive: The limits of George Lakoff's politics 2006

At last we got to the dumping-ground spot again -- the spot where we horsemen have to come to earth and walk, and where everything is unbaled from the limbers.

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather