Word: arsenicated
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...Park near Asarco Inc.'s mammoth copper-smelting plant sometimes complain that they can taste the air on windless days. With 575 workers, the 80-acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between a reduced but still clear...
...bipartisan unit finds the issue laced with political arsenic...
Reason: the plan that is acceptable to most of the 15 members of the National Commission on Social Security Reform contains political arsenic in the form of hefty tax increases on young and middle-aged workers, combined with limits on the future benefits to be paid to aged pensioners. The commission does not want to recommend such politically unpalatable steps unless it can get some signal from President Reagan and Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, that they will support the findings. Commission Member William Armstrong, a Republican Senator from Colorado, explains: "If we come...
...owner of Arsenic and Old Lace, Sherry Gamble, said her store tries to distinguish itself from other used clothing outlets by carrying mostly black clothes ranging from the "uniquely unusual to the morbidly macabre...
After the first big outbreak, in Medford. Mass., in the late 19th century, New Englanders began battling the gypsy moth by putting out arsenic, soaking egg masses in creosote, burning down whole trees. But the bugs kept spreading. Wafted by winds, hitchhiking on cars and campers, they slowly migrated to at least 21 states, including Florida and California, although so far only pockets of serious infestation have occurred west or south of West Virginia. In the 1950s, scientists thought they finally had the moths under control with DDT. But the pesticide caused so much ecological havoc, including the death...