Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's campaign against the environment has been more blatant. Its legislation to gut the acts protecting the nation's air and water, its attempts to secure exploitation of the country's lands, its fondness of strip mining, its unwillingness to do anything about the ravages of acid rain--all point to a repudiation of 75 years of governmental protection of the American natural heritage...
That will not happen to these books. They are printed on opaque, acid-free paper; unlike most volumes published after 1840, these will not slowly eat themselves up. Each one contains more than 1,300 pages, sewn together, not glued. Many uniform or limited editions try to stun with sheer size and ornate design, fancy letters marching across deserts of white space. Here, the money and care have gone into providing readable type, and plenty of it. These books are bound handsomely enough to grace any bookshelf; more important, their size (approximately 5 in. by 8 in.) and weight (about...
...hard to imagine a more dangerous agenda. With the wholesale destruction of North American streams and lakes at the hands of acid rain already underway, with every week bearing a host of new tales of illegal or forgotten chemical dumpings and with every new report of the myriad threats to health created by technological advances, the last thing this nation needs is the Administration's effort to contaminate more water and ruin more rivers and ponds...
...well. Starting on their four-month, 185-million-mile journeys within a week of each other last fall, they approached Venus in late February, separated from their mother ships and drifted under parachute through the planet's dense carbon-dioxide atmosphere, blasting winds and corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid to touchdowns east of a mountainous region called Phoebe, just south of Venus' equator...
...effort in Congress to weaken the standards of the Clean Air Act [March 1]. As the principal author of the law, I am delighted that interest in this issue is increasing. If anything, we need to expand the statute to cover new threats to our health and our environment-acid rain and airborne toxic pollutants...