Word: acidizing
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...Acid rain is shaping up as the ecological issue...
...stationing of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles on German soil next year if no agreement can be reached with the Soviets on arms reduction. The German and American leaders joined in a communiqué asserting that new approaches to the Kremlin depend on "Soviet conduct," especially in Afghanistan, "an acid test of Soviet readiness . . . to exercise restraint." Kohl said later of himself and Reagan: "We are on the same wave length...
...sheer good will is not good enough. Larry Hill, an unemployed former Marine from the Watts district of Los Angeles, derides last week's affair in Washington as "a pacification tactic." In New York City's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, itself a combat zone, Larry Smith is equally acid: "We don't need that statue. We need some jobs." He lost his left leg in Viet Nam, and he believes he was contaminated by the defoliant Agent Orange...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Canadian External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen. When they emerged from their meeting, the atmosphere was almost chummy. The two men agreed that they would henceforth consult four times a year, and they tried to make some progress in resolving the deadlocked cross-border dispute over "acid rain," industrial pollution that destroys life in lakes and forests across vast reaches of both Canada and the northern...
What causes nice, healthy, law-abiding cells to go berserk, proliferate wildly and thus produce the phenomenon called cancer? The answer, scientists have long suspected, lies in the genetic material of the cells. Somehow genes, composed of the molecule deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), have been made abnormal, perhaps by such environmental factors as cigarette smoke and radiation...