Word: carbonated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iztaccíhuatl. ("The two monsters," D.H. Lawrence wrote of them, "watching gigantically and terribly over their lofty, bloody cradle of men ... murmuring like two watchful lions.") The thin air not only contains 30% less oxygen than at sea level but makes auto engines produce nearly twice as much carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon pollution. Then, when the city's befouled air rises, the mountains trap it in the virtually permanent smog that now blocks the snowy crests from sight. The 14 million new saplings that the city planted on many streets between 1976 and 1982 are already withering...
Ironically, just ten years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency had found New Orleans' water more suitable for boiling crawfish than for drinking, discovering 73 carbon compounds; the town's sewerage and water board had to upgrade its purification program. It is a never-ending struggle. Even as New Orleans officials were savoring their victory, a barge accident 50 miles upriver sent a 200,000-gal. oil slick floating toward town, forcing the shutdown of some water-intake facilities...
Revelle has pioneered work on the effects of nuclear radiations and the "greenhouse effect" of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...
...third-largest American steel producer, and Republic, the fourth biggest, will sign a consent decree requiring the merged company to sell off two Republic plants in Gadsden, Ala., and Massillon, Ohio, within six months after the deal goes through. The Alabama plant makes hot-and cold-rolled carbon and plate steel, while the Ohio one produces sheet stainless steel. The Justice Department said that paring down the production capacity of the new company will put the agreement within its antitrust guidelines...
...committee expressed special concern for the yet unknown effects of acid rain on the microorganisms in soil that break down natural wastes into carbon and nitrogen. Committee Chairman William A. Neirenberg--director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography--called this "a worrisome thing...that you're not going to sit around and wait 20 years" to confirm...