Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proposals to control acid rain, by restricting sulfur dioxide and other industrial emissions, have been deadlocked in Congress for years. Despite reams of study on its polluting effects, President Reagan opposes new federal regulations, saying that more study is needed. In the Ohio River Valley, where much of the pollution originates before prevailing winds carry it eastward, industry views controls as prohibitively expensive. The high-sulfur coal-mining companies there are worried that restrictions will prompt a switch to low-sulfur coals produced...
Western states. As legislators and environmentalists haggle over programs, acid rain continues to contaminate lakes and forests...
SENTENCED. Peter Theodoracopulos, 45, acid-penned society columnist, earlier for Esquire, now for Vanity Fair, under his well-known nom de plume Taki; to 16 weeks' imprisonment for cocaine possession, after his arrest at Heathrow Airport last month with 23.1 grams of the drug, worth $2,000, in his back pocket; in London. Taki pleaded guilty, but plans to appeal the sentence...
...translate the horrors of the adult world into children's language. The death, madness, and devil rituals on this EP may be common but Oh-Ok's handling of them in childish terms is quite original, something along the lines of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", which turned an acid trip into an Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale...
Periodontal disease is caused by bacteria that live underneath the gums. The germs injure the tissue, and one of the body's responses appears to be the production of arrachidonic acid. Then enzymes turn this acid into three chemicals-prostaglandins, prostacyclines and thromboxane-and scientists believe that, among other things, these chemicals inflame the gums and erode the bone around the teeth...