Word: acidic
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...Clean Air Act, will allow T.V.A. and the Duquesne Light Co. of Pittsburgh to spew larger quantities of sulfur dioxide into the air while WP&L reduces its emissions. The arrangement is probably the first of many, and it should help lower the overall cost of curbing acid rain, since some utilities may opt to buy less costly rights now and delay more expensive efforts to cut back pollution...
...post office, bought a roll of stamps each and then we went to Bob Slate to pick up some double-bond, acid-free ivory electronic cream Watermark paper. You have to spend money to make money, right? When we mailed our letters, we said a prayer over the mailbox (if the shema could get Moses out of the desert, it should be able to get us out of Boston for the summer) and we waited...
This month's issue of Nature Genetics features an study by Fikes Professor of Pediatric Medicine Dr. stuart H. Orkin and several colleagues, who have deduced remarkable similarities in amino acid sequence between a human gene expression regulator, CCAAT displacement protein (CDP), and the cut protein, an important regulator of cell differentiation in fruit flies (Drosophila...
According to Deputy Chief John J. Galinas of the Cambridge Fire Department, a cylinder of hydrochloric acid was knocked over in a third floor laboratory room at around...
...extravagant unpopularity of Prime Minister Edith Cresson is harder to understand. Her acid tongue -- she called the Japanese "ants" and implied that 25% of British men were homosexual -- got her in trouble, but more recently she has been minding her manners. Nonetheless, her popularity has continued to drop, dragging down Mitterrand's with...