Word: carcinogen
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...sell corporate sponsorships for 1986 Class Day at $4 million a crack. Plastered all over campus are signs reading: "TransAmerica: The Official Conglomerate of Harvard's Class of 1986;" "Union Carbide is a Proud Backer of the Crimson's Finest;" and "Skoal Long-Cut: The Official Cheek and Gum Carcinogen of 1986 Class...
Citing a 1982 study of Woburn residents' medical histories conducted by two SPH doctors, the families claim that through the negligence of the W. R. Grace Company, the water became contaminated with a known carcinogen, causing the residents to suffer "direct adverse effects and an increased risk of illness and disease...
...causes nose cancer in Caucasian men. If Diet announces its discovery, it will lose almost half of its market; so the company conceals this information about its product. Caucasian men are freely choosing to eat Diet candy bars, but they are not freely choosing to eat a nasal carcinogen...
MATEP has faced 10 years of lawsuit by community activists and run $250 million over budget. But in January the plant finally won permission to operate its carcinogen-producing diesel engines...
...life, America comes out a "pretty strong and healthy society." He believes that programs like those L.B.J. started have done wonderfully well but that Washington, which needs despair to feel useful, refuses to see the successes clearly. "Back in the 1970s we went through a period of 'the carcinogen of the month,' from Love Canal to acid rain," relates Wattenberg. "All we heard about was the evils of Big Government and big corporations. Now we learn that during those very years, the life expectancy of adults went up faster than at any time in history. The image...