Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Yankees announced the signing of free-agent outfielder Steve Kemp yesterday, making it the second major transaction of baseball's 81st Winter Meetings...
...recent editorial that appeared in The Crimson, John D. Solomon wrote about the Agent Orange issue. It is sad to see that the facts concerning this issue have become confused and distorted...
...When the Agent Orange controversy first started to rage, the manufacturers of the chemicals involved presented all the results of their research to the government. The fact that these herbicides are still in wide use today ought to reflect the government's agreement that they are not as dangerous as popular belief holds...
...Agent Orange was a mixture of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T that was used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. When these herbicides are manufactured, the formation of a very small amount of a byproduct, TCDD (dioxin), is inavoldable. TCDD was present in these herbicides at a concentration of only a few parts per million. (The process has since been "cleaned up" so that TCDD is produced in concentrations of only parts per billion or trillion.) TCDD was not the active ingredient of Agent Orange, as Mr. Solomon states...
...controversy over Agent Orange has become complicated, and it is important that responsible political decisions be made concerning the government's action. However, before these important decisions are made, all the scientific knowledge available should be carefully studied and considered, and presented to the public in a way to prevent any possible misconceptions. Adam Bangs...