Word: affective
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...moment, the official focus is job security. "It's about investment in new products and its about economic issues that affect our membership," said UAW President Ron Gettelfinger at a press conference at union headquarters in Detroit. Gettelfinger said talks would resume immediately, but after nearly 10 days of intense negotiations he did not sound optimistic about the prospects for a quick settlement. "It was going to be General Motors' way at the expense of the workers," Gettelfinger said. "The company walked right up to the deadline like they really didn't care." He added, "You can only be pushed...
Studies involving rat and human subjects have suggested that high exposures to certain kinds of phthalates can cause cancer, developmental and sex-hormone abnormalities (including decreased testosterone and sperm levels and malformed sex organs) in infants, and can affect fertility. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has no regulations on the use of phthalates, does not require the labeling of phthalate content on products and does not consider the quantities to which people are exposed to be harmful. But other countries think otherwise. In 2004, the European Union banned two types of phthalates in cosmetics and also bans the chemical...
...study looked at which air fresheners contain the chemicals and how much, it did not assess people's exposure to phthalates from these products - the size of the room, the distance from the air freshener and how long a person stays in the room are all factors that would affect potential toxicity. But like phthalates banned from U.K. beauty products, those in air fresheners can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin. "We're not saying that there's any clear-cut evidence here for health effects," says Dr. Gina Solomon of the NRDC. "If consumers want to reduce overall...
China’s economic emergence is causing a big stir, and, among other things, people want to know how the economic transformation will affect Chinese society. I don’t know enough about China now to have a strong sense of how China’s profoundly different culture will express itself in the twenty-first century, but if my two months in Shanghai this summer offered any glimpse at all, it is that the China of tomorrow may look something like a cross between the Manhattan and Las Vegas of today...
Does the negative press about your husband affect your personal relationship...