Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COULD have been New York, except for the garden hose. They don't have gardens in New York, and carbon monoxide is everywhere. It could have been any big city, any middle city, this drying up of hope and wetting down of sorrow. It happens all the time, anonymously, in cities...
...burn. One study sponsored by the Ford Foundation estimates that a new coal-fired plant meeting current environmental standards produces two to 25 fatalities a year. In addition, there is the threat of the "greenhouse effect," the possibility that all-out burning of coal would pour so much carbon dioxide into the air as to keep heat from escaping out of the atmosphere into space. Theoretical consequences that some scientists like to cite: warming of the earth, melting of the polar ice caps, flooding of the world's seacoast cities. In fact, there is no known way of producing...
...some black students still say they are searching for a black cultural identity. As one 17-year-old puts it: "I suppose the black man's struggle is eventually to gain equal standing in this predominantly white country without at the same time becoming a carbon copy of the white...
...women used new carbon-fiber oars for the first time Saturday, and Ronan said the lighter oars may have caused some of the difficulties in the early part of the race since the women were not used to them. But strong power 20s after the first 500 and first 1000 kept the women on track, en route...
Chloroflourocarbon is the chemical name for gases composed of chlorine, fluorine and carbon that have come to be known simply as flourocarbons. The chlorine has been found to deplete the earth's protective umbrella of ozone in the stratosphere, increasing the planet's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation...