Word: acidizing
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...Puerto Rico to retain tax breaks worth $600 million a year to the island's economy. So far, the investigations have publicly produced no evidence of wrongdoing. They have stirred up some smoke, however, by poking into Deaver's efforts on behalf of Canada concerning the issue of acid rain...
Deaver may have participated in as many as 15 U.S.-Canadian discussions of acid rain before he left the White House last May, said James F. Hinchman, the GAO deputy general counsel, who testified last week before the investigations subcommittee chaired by Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan. For example, said Hinchman, Deaver actively supported a proposal, later accepted by the Reagan Administration, that the U.S. and Canada appoint special envoys to deal with the acid-rain problem. Less than a week after he quit his White House job, Deaver began talks with Canadian officials that eventually...
...shine like a newly minted penny at its rededication on July 4. Even so, why have parts of the statue's left cheek, left neck and torch arm developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue's protective patina in the 1960s and cannot be removed without endangering the delicate copper sheath. But then again, what 100-year-old lady does not have an age spot here and there...
...those walking potential victims of cancer," Michael Lambert, who said he lives 1200 feet from the plant, told the court. Lambert then produced four test tubes of acid soot from his jacket pocket as an illustration of the potential threat from the power plant...
After Deaver left the White House, the Canadian government paid him $105,000 to advise it on a number of issues, including acid rain...